Dumbdown – A Tree Language that compiles to HTML
I&#x27;ve been working on something similar, with the intention of making something that separates <i>semantic</i> tags from <i>formatting</i> tags, such that the resulting document could be directly narrated or dictated, without resorting to too many (if any) &quot;special&quot; words for punctuation. Renderers could easily translate&#x2F;format the output for better <i>style</i> or into a form more appropriate for their purposes; &quot;editors&quot; could do the same.<p>Currently, screen-readers do not cope well with modern web pages, and can you imagine trying to dictate HTML to a speech-to-text based editor? Using our approach means you can literally speak the content to the stt, and have it appear on-screen in a displayable format. I&#x27;m thinking this would be useful for verbal&#x2F;conversation applications where you can effectively dispense with a visual display.<p>I haven&#x27;t put my ideas into any kind of proper documentation, but they are very close to yours.