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Subject:    Re: [xml-dev] Four fine text-based data formats ... liberate yourself from one (silo) data format
From:       John Cowan <johnwcowan () gmail ! com>
Date:       2013-03-25 5:05:38
Message-ID: CABzTEQC8xMm5_YRdvYYst+boaAPNUTOE0wT93fDkUG5YC2DB_w () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net> wrote:


> Yeah in my case, in my recent projects I've used an Examplotron-based
> modeling system I wrote into my Amara software (in Python).  I almost never
> have to bother with heavyweight schemata.
>

Very interesting.  What features of Examplotron do you support?  I'm
writing a paper for submission to Balisage that makes use of Examplotron,
and I'd like to know what parts of it you found useful.


> I so often get lost in a thicket of "]" and "}" and end up having to
> primitively count on my fingers while squinting at cryptic error messages.
>

The vi command "%" is your friend; there are analogues in emacs, but I
don't know them.

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<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Uche Ogbuji <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a \
href="mailto:uche@ogbuji.net" target="_blank">uche@ogbuji.net</a>&gt;</span> \
wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>

  </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div \
class="gmail_quote"><div>Yeah in my case, in my recent projects I&#39;ve used an \
Examplotron-based modeling system I wrote into my Amara software (in Python).   I \
almost never have to bother with heavyweight schemata.</div>

</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Very interesting.   What \
features of Examplotron do you support?   I&#39;m writing a paper for submission to \
Balisage that makes use of Examplotron, and I&#39;d like to know what parts of it you \
found useful.</div>

<div style>  </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 \
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div \
class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"> <div>I so often get lost in a thicket \
of &quot;]&quot; and &quot;}&quot; and end up having to primitively count on my \
fingers while squinting at cryptic error \
messages.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>

<div style>The vi command &quot;%&quot; is your friend; there are analogues in emacs, \
but I don&#39;t know them.</div><div style><br></div></div>-- <br>GMail doesn&#39;t \
have rotating .sigs, but you can see mine at <a \
href="http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/signatures">http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/signatures</a>
 </div></div>



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