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Anyone have any tips for ASCII formatting?

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Paul Keith:
I think a cross-OS read-only output file would be better as it's separate from a specific text editor.

I worry about the limitations though.

An in-place TOC works because you can use the text editor's find feature to find the section but how would an output file do that?

housetier:
The TOC in the output file can easily be generated from the input file (that is the file which you edit). However, I consider updating the TOC in the same file that you are editing difficult without any sort of mark up.

Paul Keith:
How expansive would creating a custom markup be?

Do you need to rely on any standard? Even markdown IMO seems overkill and not really compatible with my usage of the [], (), *, symbols.

housetier:
The markup could be whatever, there is no standard. And since a programmer would most likely program this parser from scratch, she/he could come up with whatever markup language (WML?) is suitable.

Paul Keith:
How about this?

Big Red Font:

===
text
===

Big black font:

------
text
------

Small Blue Font:

[[text]]

Small Light Blue Font:

[text]

Small Red Font:

[[[text]]]

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