Technical specifications often include snippets of data, XML, or code. If data is pasted into a text document, it becomes static and can no longer be validated by a system that managed or created it. It would be better to support import of text from external sources dynamically. Each time a Tablature process is run, it would access fresh data. Once imported, the text would be treated the same as the surrounding document.
Markdown already has a feature called fenced code block for a literal snippet, delimited by ``` (3 backticks). A Tablature processor would recognize a syntax for an import statement within such a block and pull it in.
donmendelson
commented
3 years ago
Technical specifications often include snippets of data, XML, or code. If data is pasted into a text document, it becomes static and can no longer be validated by a system that managed or created it. It would be better to support import of text from external sources dynamically. Each time a Tablature process is run, it would access fresh data. Once imported, the text would be treated the same as the surrounding document.
Markdown already has a feature called fenced code block for a literal snippet, delimited by ``` (3 backticks). A Tablature processor would recognize a syntax for an import statement within such a block and pull it in.