In principle implementing Visual-Meta into your document export system is simple: A new page needs to be created, with the title ‘Visual-Meta Appendix’ in the same style as other top level headings in the document, followed by a smaller text ‘Introduction Section’ and then, in very small type, the ‘Metadata Sections’:
Introduction Section
Visual-Meta starts with a plain text description of what it is, as described in the section on Introduction Boilerplate. Crucially, this is not optional, it is mandatory in order to make sure Visual-Meta can be used by many, now and in the future.
Metadata Sections
The Visual-Meta metadata starts with: @{visual-meta-start}…
… and ends with @{visual-meta-end}.
Implementation notes is suggested reading. Please also note that you can use ΒΆ to indicate a line break for parsing, using more of the horizontal space, as is done in the ‘Example’ below.
Copy & Paste with Visual-Meta
Copy from a document with Visual-Meta: Clipboard Payload.
Code
Code for extracting Visual-Meta is available. This code is free and open:
- github.com/miaulnir/visual-meta-framework
- Web based parser for Visual-Meta
Experimental
- Expand into XR space: Open a document in VR/AR/XR space, put pictures on walls for example, then interact with the document in traditional digital media, or even print it out, later return to XR space and nothing is lost.
- Analyse large collections: Analyse vast collections of documents based on specific data contained within, in the forms of graphs, charts and more, without having to open individual documents.