@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ Why? Decades of experience with HTML and its relations have acclimated us to the
@margin-note{Historians of desktop word processors may remember that WordPerfect has a @onscreen{Reveal codes} feature which lets you drop into the markup that represents the formatting displayed in the GUI.}
Part of the idea of @racket[quad] is to make typographic layout & PDF generation a service that can be built into other Racket apps and languages. For simple jobs, you might reach for @racket[quadwriter] and make your Q-expressions using its tag vocabulary. For other jobs, you might reach for something else. For instance, I could imagine a @code{#lang résumé} that has a more limited markup vocabulary, optimized for churning out résumés with a simple layout. Or a @code{#lang tax-form} that has a more complex markup vocabulary that supports more detail and precision. As usual with domain-specific languages, we can create an interface that adjusts the level of control available to the end user, depending on what's suitable for the type of document being created.
Part of the idea of @racket[quad] is to make typographic layout & PDF generation a service that can be built into other Racket apps and languages. For simple jobs, you might reach for @racket[quadwriter] and make your Q-expressions using its tag vocabulary. For other jobs, you might reach for something else. For instance, I could imagine a @code{#lang resume} that has a more limited markup vocabulary, optimized for churning out résumés with a simple layout. Or a @code{#lang tax-form} that has a more complex markup vocabulary that supports more detail and precision. As usual with domain-specific languages, we can create an interface that adjusts the level of control available to the end user, depending on what's suitable for the type of document being created.
