[Oberon] A server allowing revisions to source Texts. Was, Re (2): revisions in sources.

[peter at easthope.ca]

Bernhard and all,

In 
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks_talk:What_is_Wikibooks#The_source_code_of_a_computer_operating_system 
at 13:01, 21 April 2016 (UTC), Treutwein wrote,
"... not yet completely understood how to tweak it, but the basics 
for that tweaking can be found in the Pro Git book in Chap. 8.2 
..." (https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Attributes).

Git "attributes" is a solution to the "Oberon-Text-is-binary" 
problem.  Another possibility is to represent the Oberon source 
Text as HTML5.  A binary section could be in an embed or object 
element.  <embed type="text/Oberon"> ... </embed>.  Ref.: 
https://dev.w3.org/html5/spec-preview/the-embed-element.html  Most 
of the Text would remain as human readable plain text.

Desktops.OpenDoc could be adjusted to render the HTML5 to the 
original Oberon Text.  A conventional browser would render an 
almost perfect facsimile.

Would that be acceptable?  Objectionable?

Thanks,            ... Lyall E.


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