From b797bcfe23ade3d235f41b8121cdf1c4373d7810 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ralph Amissah Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 13:25:18 -0400 Subject: sisudoc spine sync (0.16.0 dir name changes) --- .../spine-bespoke-output/html/homepage.index.html | 671 --------------------- 1 file changed, 671 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 markup/spine-bespoke-output/html/homepage.index.html (limited to 'markup') diff --git a/markup/spine-bespoke-output/html/homepage.index.html b/markup/spine-bespoke-output/html/homepage.index.html deleted file mode 100644 index 01108df..0000000 --- a/markup/spine-bespoke-output/html/homepage.index.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,671 +0,0 @@ - - - - - ≅ SiSU project sisudoc.org - - - - - -

≅ - SiSU for documents - structuring, publishing in multiple -formats & search

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ℹ - A short description

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- -SiSU is an object-centric, lightweight markup based, document structuring, -parser, publishing and search tool for document collections. It is command line -oriented and generates static content that is currently made searchable at an -object level through an SQL database. -Markup helps define (delineate) objects (primarily various types of text block) -which are tracked in sequence, substantive objects being numbered sequentially -by the program for object citation. - -

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Δ - SiSU project source

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- - Δ SiSU projects repo (git) -
- - - https://git.sisudoc.org -
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- - Δ SiSU (scribe): document publishing (multiple formats + search) -
- - - https://git.sisudoc.org/sisu -
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- - Δ SiSU markup samples in document pods for sisu (scribe) -
- - - https://git.sisudoc.org/sisu-markup -
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⌘ - SiSU Spine markup sample output

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-To give an idea of how this works here is a small collection of documents marked -up for and generated by the software. The curation of topics for a collection of -specialized related documents would benefit from a consistently applied bespoke -ontology or thesaurus.
The documents presented are documents that have been -released under various creative commons licences, in the public domain, or the -author's work, with the exception of one that is under GPL and the old abandoned -Debian live-manual -

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- - ⌘ Authors - - (software curated from provided document header metadata)
- - - https://sisudoc.org/spine/authors.html - -

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- - ⌘ Topics - - (software curated from provided document header metadata)
- - - https://sisudoc.org/spine/topics.html - -

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፨ - SiSU Spine search

- - ፨ Search - - (granular search of text objects)
- - - https://sisudoc.org/spine_search - -

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ℹ - SiSU description

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- -Summary. An object is a unit of text within a document the most common -being a paragraph. Objects include individual headings, paragraphs, tables, -grouped text of various types such as code blocks and within poems, verse. -Objects have properties and attributes, of particular significance are headings -and their levels which provide document structure. A heading is an object with a -heirarchical value, that conceptually contains other objects (such as paragraphs -and possibly sub-headings etc.). Objects are tracked sequentially as they relate -to each other object within a document and substantive objects are numbered -sequentially, for citation purposes. Notably footnotes are not objects in -themselves, rather belonging to the object from which they are referenced, and -following their own numbering sequence. From heading objects (linked) tables of -content may be generated, and if additional metadata is provided book type -indexes can be generated that link back to the objects to which they relate. - -

- -Unpacking this a bit further. SiSU as a concept independent of its markup -language and the parsers that have been implemented, is based on the following -ideas: - -

- -Object-Centricity. On objects: In SiSU objects are the fundamental unit -from which larger constructs within a document and the document itself is built. -Breaking the document into objects provides interesting possibilities. - -

- -Objects are fundamental building blocks: Conceptually within SiSU, -objects are the building blocks or individual units of construction of a -document. Objects are usually blocks of text, the most common of which is the -paragraph, other examples include: individual headings, tables, grouped text of -various types which include code blocks and verse within poems, ... and as -mentioned an object could also, for example, be an image. Objects can be -formatted and placed as needed, providing flexibility and enabling multiple -types of representation across disperate formats and text recepticle, examples -including html, epub, latex (in the past mind-maps) and sql (populated at an -object level, and thereby providing search with that degree of granularity). - -

- -Sequential. Objects have sequence: That objects have sequence, goes -largely without saying, this follows authorship, it is part of the definition of -a document and how a document is written to convey meaning. - -

- -Object Numbers & Citation. Substantive objects are numbered for citation -purposes: Most objects within a document are meant by the author to be a -substantive part of the document. All such objects are numbered sequentially and -can be referenced thereby for citation purposes. -Object numbers provide the possibility of citing/locating text precisely across -different document formats and different languages (assuming the document has -been translated). For search it also makes it possible to identify precisely -where search criteria is met within in each document in the form of an index or -to view those precise text objects before deciding which documents are of -interest. Additionally the use of objects (and that objects are numbered) frees -the possibility to represent the document in the manner considered most suitable -to a specific document format wilst retaining its structural (and citation) -integrity). - -

-Characteristics. Objects have properties and attributes: Objects have -properties (and may have attributes). By properties I here refer to the -fundamental type of object, be it a heading, a paragraph, table, verse etc. -Attributes extend further and may include other things that one might wish to -associate with the object (examples not necessarily currently available/ -implemented in SiSU might include, formatting whether it is indented, or -metadata e.g. the associated language, or programming language for a code block) - -

- -Document structure. Heading objects hold documents structure: Heading -objects hold documents structure through their heading level property. The types -of document of interest to SiSU have structure that is captured by the heading -level property. Headings are individual objects like any other with the -additional properties that (i) they may be regarded as containing the other -objects following them sequentially (until the next heading of a similar or -higher level), heading objects may include other headings (sub-headings), and -(ii) that they have a heirarchy, the root "heading" being the document -title.
A complication was intruduced to provide greater flexibility across -document output formats. Headings have two sets of levels, the level under which -substantive text occurs, this would be a chapter or segment level, and above -that in the heirarchy if needed are document section separators, book, section, -part. - -

- -Non-objects Most but not all parts of a document are treated as objects. -Notably footnotes are not objects in themselves, rather belonging to the object -from which they are referenced, and following their own numbering sequence. From -heading objects (linked) tables of content may be generated, and if additional -metadata is provided book type indexes can be generated that link back to the -objects to which they relate. - -

- -The Document Header. SiSU document have headers which contain document -metadata, at a minimum the document title and author. In addition the document -header may contain markup instruction (e.g. how to identify headings within the -document, in which case those headings need not be found and treated -accordingly) - -

- -SiSU parsers have now been implemented in different programming paradigms and -languages a couple of times, the chosen markup has been left unchanged though -the document headers have been modified. - -This is the core of sisu, beyond which there is more but largely in the form of -choices based on ... existing output formats and of implementation detail, -deciding what attributes of objects, or within objects should be supported, -extending markup to allow for the generation of book indexes from if tagging -provided. - -

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ℹ - SiSU Historical Descriptions

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-Here is a description that has been used for the original sisu (scribe): -

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-With minimal preparation of a plain-text (UTF-8) file, using sisu markup syntax -in your text editor of choice, SiSU can generate various document formats, most -of which share a common object numbering system for locating content, including -plain text, HTML, XHTML, XML, EPUB, OpenDocument text (ODF:ODT), LaTeX, PDF -files, and populate an SQL database with objects (roughly paragraph-sized -chunks) so searches may be performed and matches returned with that degree of -granularity. Think of being able to finely match text in documents, using common -object numbers, across different output formats (same object identifier for pdf, -epub or html) and across languages if you have translations of the same document -(same object identifier across languages). For search, your criteria is met by -these documents at these locations within each document (equally relevant across -different output formats and languages). To be clear (if obvious) page numbers -provide none of this functionality. Object numbering is particularly suitable -for "published" works (finalized texts as opposed to works that are frequently -changed or updated) for which it provides a fixed means of reference of content. -Document outputs can also share provided semantic meta-data. -

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-SiSU is less about document layout than it is about finding a way using little -markup to construct an abstract representation of a document that makes it -possible to produce multiple representations of it which may be rather different -from each other and used for different purposes, whether layout and publishing, -scrollworthy online viewing/ reading, or content search. To be able to take -advantage from its minimal preparation starting point of some of the strengths -of rather different established ways of representing documents for different -purposes, whether for search (relational database, or indexed flat files -generated for that purpose whether of complete documents, or say of files made -up of objects), online or other electronic viewing (e.g. html, xml, epub), or -paper publication (e.g. pdf via latex)... -

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-The solution arrived at is to extract structural information about the document -(document sections and headings within the document, available through pattern -matching or markup) and tracking objects (which primarily are defined units of -text such as paragraphs, headings, tables, verse, etc. but also images) which -can be reconstituted as the same documents with relevant object identification -numbers so text (objects) can be referenced across different output formats and -presentations. -

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-SiSU generates tables of content, and through its markup the means for metadata -to be provided for the generation of book style indexes for a document (that -again due to document object numbers are the same and equally relevant across -all document formats). Per document classifying/organizing metadata can also be -provided for automated document curation. -

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-... there have also been working experiments with sisu markup source, two way -conversion/representation of sisu document markup source in mind-mapping -(software kdissert was used for its strong focus on producing documents (now -apparently called semantik)); also po4a software for translators has been used -successfuly in its regular text mode for sisu markup in translation, (which is -more an attribute of po4a than of sisu, but) which is of interest due to -sisu/spine's object citation numbering being available across translations. Open -Document Format text (odf:odt), has been an output, but much more interesting -(and requested by potential users of sisu/spine) would be the ability of a word -processor to save text/a document in sisu markup, making alternative document -processing and presentations with sisu possible. -

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-also worth mention, in the relatively long history of this project, there has -been work done on extracting hash representations of each object, that could -hypothetically be shared to prove the content of a document without sharing its -content, or of identifying which objects change; these hashes can also be used -as unique identifiers in a database or as identifying filenames if individual -objects are saved. -

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-SiSU has evolved, the current implementation focuses on one primary use-case, -books and literary writings. However the concept on which it is based has wider -application. Here is a prevously posted souvenir from my encounter with an IBM -software evaluator in London June 2004 that came about through a chance -encounter with an IBM manager at a Linux Expo, who was curious about my interest -in Gnu/Linux with my legal background... on hearing that I also wrote software, -he suggested, maybe IBM should have a look at it. I was interested, the meeting -was set up... with an IBM, Software Innovations evaluator
His response after -the meeting: -

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-"Ralph
Good to meet with you today, I was very impressed with your -software.
[colleague's name (also posted to an IBM colleague)] - in -summary - Ralph has built an application that runs on linux and takes ASCII -documents and pulls them apart in to the smallest constituent parts, storing -them as XML, PDF and HTML, the HTML are hyperlinked up so the document can be -browsed in its full form. the format and text data created is stored in a -database.
This has potential in any place that needs the power of full text -search whilst holding the structural concepts of the document i.e. legal, -pharma, education, research.. which ones we need to figure out, ..." -

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-Special interest was expressed in the search implications of SiSU. To -paraphrase, the company has document management systems dealing with hundreds of -thousands of texts, these tell you which documents match your search criteria, -but cannot inform you where within a text these matches were found without -opening the documents. This is achieved through defining document objects and -making them the building block of the document, trackable document objects (that -can be placed back in the context of the document or corpus of documents if part -of a collection). SiSU's early design was to - abstract documents to their -structure, and identified objects, numbered in a citable way (as pointed out -document object hashes can be of use for the purpose). -

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ℹ - SiSU Spine

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-SiSU Spine is the new generator for documents prepared in sisu markup, written -in D as opposed to the original sisu which was first shared in Ruby. -

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-Spine code has not as yet been made publicly available. -

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-As compared with the original sisu generator sisu spine: -

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-- Spine uses the same document markup for the document body, but uses yaml for -document headers (which contains document metadata and configuration details), -the original sisu has a bespoke markup for headers. -

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-- Spine (written in D) is considerably faster at generating native output than -sisu (written in Ruby), on last test at least 60 times faster (what took 1 -minute takes 1 second; 1 hour a minute :-) (admittedly some time ago, ruby has -been getting faster, hopefully this is not over over promising). -

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-- Spine produces fewer document outputs types than sisu (html, epub, (odt, -latex) and populates sql db for search) -

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-- As regards non-native output, so far Spine has greater separation of what it -does and largely leaves calling the external program to the user, e.g.: latex -output is a native output in the sense that it is generated directly by spine, -but the pdfs that can be produced from these are produced through use of an -external program xelatex, which produces fine output but is a very much slower -process. -

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-- (where both produce the same output type, generally) Spine generally produces -more up to date output format representations. -

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