ogmarkup

What is ogmarkup?

Typographic rules can be trick to enforce in a consistent manner in a document. In French, typographic rules for dialogues are arguably worst. ogmarkup is part of the so-called ogma-project. It is a minimal domain-specific markup language, intended to free fiction writers from the pain to enforce typographic rules within their productions manually.

The Language

Formatting

This is a regular sentence.

<p>This is a regular sentence.</p>

This is a regular sentence.

*This is a sentence with emphasize.*</p>

<p><em>This is a regular sentence.</em></p>

This is a regular sentence.

+This is a sentence with strong emphasize.+</p>

<p><strong>This is a sentence with strong emphasize.</strong></p>

This is a sentence with strong emphasize.

This +is+ a *sentence with +multiple emphasizes+*.

<p>This <strong>is</strong> a <em>sentence with <strong>multiple emphasizes</strong></em>.</p>

This is a sentence with multiple emphasizes.

"This is a +quote+."

<p>“This is a <strong>quote</strong>.”</p>

“This is a quote.”

This +is an "incorrect+" sentence.

<p>This <span class="illformed_inline">+is an "incorrect+" sentence.</span></p>

This +is an "incorrect+"
sentence.

<p>This <span class="illformed_inline">+is an "incorrect+"</span> sentence.</p>

Dialogues

[Hi,| she says.|](Clara)

<p><span class="dialogue by-Clara">“<span class="reply">Hi,</span>” she says.</span></p>

“Hi, she says.

[Hi,| she says.| How are you?](Clara)

<p><span class="dialogue by-Clara">“<span class="reply">Hi,</span> she says. <span class="reply">How are you?</span>”</span></p>

“Hi, she says. How are you?”

[Hi,| she says.| How are you?](Clara) [I'm fine, thanks.]

<p><span class="dialogue by-Clara">“<span class="reply">Hi,</span> she says. <span class="reply">How are you?</span>”</span></p><p><span class="dialogue">“<span class="reply">I’m fine, thanks.</span>”</span></p>

“Hi, she says. How are you?”

“I’m fine, thanks.”

[Hi,| she says.| How are you?](Clara) She was smiling. [I'm fine, thanks.]

<p><span class="dialogue by-Clara">“<span class="reply">Hi,</span> she says. <span class="reply">How are you?</span>”</span> She was smiling. <span class="dialogue">“<span class="reply">I’m fine, thanks.</span>”</span></p>

“Hi, she says. How are you?” She was smiling. “I’m fine, thanks.”

It was a hot day. [Hi!| he said.](Aaron)
His friends smiled.

<div><p>It was a hot day.<span class="illformed_inline">[Hi!| he said.](Aaron)</span> His friends smiled. </p></div>

It was a hot day.[Hi!| he said.](Aaron) His friends smiled.

Paragraphs

This is a first paragraph.

This is a second paragraph.

<div><p>This is a first paragraph.</p><p>This is a second paragraph</p>

This is a first paragraph.

This is a second paragraph

[Ceci est une première ligne de dialogue.]

[Ceci est une autre ligne de dialogue.]

<div><p><span class="dialogue">«&nbsp;<span class="reply">Ceci est une première ligne de dialogue.</span></span></p><p><span class="dialogue">— <span class="reply">Ceci est une autre ligne de dialogue.</span></span></p></div>

« Ceci est une première ligne de dialogue.

— Ceci est une autre ligne de dialogue.

The Implementations

A first implementation of an ogmarkup parser and compiler has been written in Haskell, and has been published on hackage (MIT). This first project has been deprecated in favor of a rewriting in Rust yet to be released on crates.io