Request for Comment -- A Lightweight Notation on the WWW
I have been experimenting with simple and inexpensive ways of preparing
documentation for a long time. I have a simple way to place specifications
and descriptions on the World Wide Web. It fits with Thimbleby and Ladkin's
theory[ThLa]. They showed that you can use a mixture of mathematical and
natural elements to generate readable manuals. My work grew from BNF. It
includes a way to add searching to a set of documents. It also formalizes
ways to reuse and extend parts of a document.
I tested it by publishing notes, samples, bibliographies, and formal
definitions[MATHS]. Please look at the result. Then criticize it, use it,
extend it, and improve on it.
Bibliography
- MATHS::= See http://www.csci.csusb.edu/dick/research.html#MATHS.
- (ThLa): Harold W Thimbleby & Peter B Ladkin, "From logic to manuals", 1996,
[ log2manop.html ]
- and "From Logic to Manuals Again",
IEE Proceedings Software Engineering, 144(3),pp185-192, 1997