On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 8:48 AM, Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen <xxxxxx@nieper-wisskirchen.de> wrote:

The following is a feature request I initially sent to the SRFI editor. He asked me to submit this request on the mailing list for public discussion.

Here's what I said privately in response to Marc's initial proposal:

I've been thinking along these lines, too. This would make a lot of things easier for me and for authors, including automation.

For example, I saw [a #scheme] IRC transcript in which someone was looking for a binding search feature. With semantic markup, extracting an index from the SRFis would be easier. Of course, we'd have to convert all 155 older SRFIs, too.

I'd love to be able to extract the text about each binding in each SRFI automatically in order to construct a searchable index. Semantic markup could help.

Semantic markup might also make it easier to create a table of contents inside each SRFI. Currently, some SRFIs have TOCs and others don't, but if we make it easy, they might all have them.

If we did this right, it would be easy to generate HTML from other, easier to write formats, and using WYSIWYG tools.

I encourage anyone reading this to experiment with CSS and see what they can come up with. I plan to try my hand at it, too, but I have a bunch of other projects ahead of this one, so it may take me a long time.

Thanks,

SRFI Editor