BPT

Basic Plain Text

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These documents describe Basic Plain Text (BPT). This is a text format designed to simplify the creation of text editions.

BPT is

1. human readable
2. semantic
3. an extension or variant of Markdown
4. easily convertible into other formats, including (CTS compliant) TEI and PDF

Summary

• BPT Aims
• BPT Basics
• BPT for Text Editions 1
• BPT for Text Editions 2
• BPT Citations and references
• BPT and Leiden+
• BPT and Leiden+ Overview
• BPT workflow
• BPT and CTS
• BPT in the wild
• BPT Semantics

version history

Version	Date	Author	Description
0.1	January 2019	Ernest Suyver	First draft
0.2	February 2019	Ernest Suyver	Changes and additions
0.3	April 2020	Ernest Suyver	Rewrite
0.4	April 2023	Ernest Suyver	Migration and republication