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The material connects LaTeX/ConTeXt and WYSIWYM with WYSIWYG, emphasizing implicit semantics, external styling constraints, and the conditional production of both HTML and PDF. It also traces how early peer-to-peer systems like email and their emphasis limitations shaped later markup conventions (Markdown, MediaWiki) and publishing formats for essay-like writing.","notes for unbound book  \njohn c. haltiwanger  \nmy.intro  \n(in reference to Rakim, who said “it’s not where you’re from, its where you’re at” i’d like to propose a new variation: “it’s not who you are, it’s where you’re at”)  \nauto-didactic programming skillset free software new media theory (easily one of the most important “open source”tools i’ve ever come across; i’ll cometothe topic of my thesis ina moment) r11y mindset (has anyone here heard of i18n? it originates from trying to solve a language barrier; thus my contribution ‘r11y’ -a shorthand for ‘revolutionary’; this is not meant that these or any of my thoughts are revolutionary, only that i like to concentrate on problematics with potentially macro-level consequences; any approach that is concerned with its own approach)  \n+ typography  \nhad known LaTeX as a common libre tool for some time without comprehending exactly what it was.  \nmy friend’s college institutionalized LaTeX for typesetting theses and he mentioned the typographical and, further, the referencing management advantages.  \nlater my sister showed me her PhD workflow in LyX.  \nwhat you see is. . .  \nWYSIWYM is an adjacent paradigm to the venerable and popular What You See Is What You Get.  \nit is different in the formulation of its focus: implicit semantics over explicit choice.  \nit abstracts from the underlying layer in an act of [re-presentation. in](re-presentation. in) the end it is feeding a typesetting engine that speaks a dialect of a programming language that is over 30 years old.  \nthis hybridization relies on external styles. this is not in itself a problem, but it turns out that extensive stylistic customization can be a tricky deal in LaTeX. i began exploring other options along the same lines and came across ConTeXt. i’ll be returning to the importance of this in a second.  \ngrammatic processes  \nmy thesis was a shift in focus from large-scale, peer-to-peer platform design based on social solutions to “piracy”.  \nthere were moments in the class that led to revelationsonthe integrability of programming tools with humanities essay writing. especially in a collaborative sense.  \ngeert lovink proposed a concept for a new kind of journal based on moving beyond old academic publishing paradigms such as traditional peer review and paper-focused issue formats. i emailed him some thoughts about how web interfaces tied to translation layers could potentially enable for experimental peer review systems and cohesive visual design.  \nthe next thing i knew my thesis was about generative typesetting.  \nthe ‘what’ is generative  \nso i wrote a thesis whose case study was the typesetting of itself.  \nthe typesetting was conditional: as a primary order, in order to address its own conditions of relevance, the thesis was determined to be set in both HTML and PDF. such a methodology implied automation.  \nthe easiest option is a direct PDF rendering of HTML. which has no hyphenation.  \nEEErrr!  \nbut even in the first place, who would write their thesis in HTML? (HTML is a machine-oriented semantic markup, making it non-trivial to attain either literacy or instinctual readability; due to time constraints i will not going togo into detail with the history of HTML and machine-oriented semantic markup;)  \nemail as an origin of visually semantic textuality  \nemail was the first time we truly went peer-to-peer. any node that had access to the internet could send and receive emails because the protocol was designed that way. (this, of course, led to heavy spamming.)  \nemail was also a system where one could not rely on physically derived cues for textual emphasis. for instance the repeated etching of ink or double stamping of typewriters could not be represented by the plain-text (read: ‘semantic free’) environment.  \n[DO YOU REMEMBER ALL THE SHOUTING?!?!]  \nthis led to systems of expression which relied on textual clues to provide subtextual meaning. the most obvious are all-caps shout-outs, bane of the unintentionally","cbCailkNUig5ePgz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailkNUig5ePgz","pdf",43252,1,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Auto-didactic programming and tool ecosystems\n## Typographic considerations and LaTeX/ConTeXt\n# Thesis focus: generative typesetting\n## Typesetting as a self-referential case study\n## HTML and PDF as conditional outputs\n# Visual semantics and WYSIWYM\n## Email as an origin of textual subtext\n## Markup, readability, and semantic ontology\n# Publishing formats and practical limits\n## MediaWiki and essay fragility\n## No universal pre-format for typographic workflows","[{\"question\":\"How do these notes define WYSIWYM compared with WYSIWYG?\",\"answer\":\"WYSIWYM is described as emphasizing implicit semantics over explicit visual choice, abstracting the presentation layer while feeding a typesetting engine that behaves like a programming language dialect.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is conditional generation of both HTML and PDF important to the thesis?\",\"answer\":\"The thesis uses self-addressing typesetting conditions of relevance, choosing HTML and PDF as the dual representation targets, which implies automation as part of the workflow.\"},{\"question\":\"What role do email and early peer-to-peer protocols play in the argument?\",\"answer\":\"Email is presented as the first true peer-to-peer system and as a text environment lacking physical cues for emphasis, leading to alternative textual signals like all-caps, emoticons, and underscore syntax.\"}]","unbound_book - 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