NLS/Augment Design

Created on 2022-04-05T05:08:38-05:00

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A document consists of zero or more paragraphs.

A paragraph have a unique ID called a SID. IDs which begin with 0 are SIDs and originally were monotonically increasing numbers. For example 0127 is the SID #127.

Documents have a heirarchy structure where paragraphs can be stored inside of other paragraphs.

The structural positioning of nodes alternates numbers and letters. So a structural path looks like 1a1b and so on.

Documents have unique IDs.

Can link to particular SIDs in a document (follows paragraphs through changes and migration) or to a particular structural offset (for documents that are read-only.)

Documents are "finished" and made permanently read only in the form of "journals" which can then be linked to by other things.

It's a very old but very productive system. Partially recreated by hyperbole.el.