> And, no, you wouldn't have to use an external implementation since
> (chibi scribble) is portable and even packaged on snow-fort.org
> <http://snow-fort.org>.

This is great. I wonder whether Ciprian's original point was about
requiring Scheme in particular to read the documents, or about requiring
any markup language that effectively comes with a full programming
language (which would make it a big/complex dependency). If the worry is
about the latter (i.e. having to run a complex dynamic program every
time you want to get a static document), maybe authors could run
Scribble and have it output some static (S-expression-based?) format
with few or no dynamic features.

> So I'll update my tools to generate the new markup and probably share them.
> I just find html extremely unpleasant to write by hand.

If Scribble is catching on, I'm sure people would welcome standard tools
for writing SRFIs with it. Your initiative is very much appreciated!

It also appears you've written a tag soup HTML parser for Scheme:
<http://snow-fort.org/s/gmail.com/alexshinn/chibi/html-parser/0.5.7/index.html>
We might be able to use that to parse even the old SRFIs. Then we could
write all the SRFI tools in Scheme, as would be fitting :)

I guess HTML is an example of Berners-Lee's "rule of least power", and
hence not likely to win the hearts of technical writers...