Unotal  in 50 seconds

All Unotal  units are sequences of characters from the Unicode character set and must be encoded using UTF-8.

A string can be written just as it is. It does not have to be written between quotation marks.

A Unotal  string

alpha

A Unotal  room can be a sequence of strings and other Unotal  rooms and is written in angle brackets. The entries of a room are separated by nothing or white space, not by commas or semicolons.

A Unotal  room with 3 entries, the last entry being a room itself

< alpha beta < one two >>

Unotal  units might be formatted freely, i.e., newline characters and/or multiple spaces can be used instead of a space.

A Unotal  room equivalent to the previous room

< alpha beta 
  < one two >>

A room can have attributes, too.

A Unotal  attribute within a room (name is "color", value is "red")

< color=red
  alpha beta >

An attribute value might be a room itself (i.e., structured).

A structured Unotal  attribute value with a Unotal  room

< authors=< Mary Peter >
  alpha beta >

If a string contains certain special characters, it needs to be written in square brackets. While spaces outside of such square brackets are just ignored as white space, spaces and line endings within square brackets are significant.

Bracketed strings in Unotal 

< authors=< [Mary Meyers] [Peter Miller] >
  text=[This is a Unotal string.
        It might contain newline characters
        and might contain most characters without 
        "escapes" [even 'nested' pairs of brackets]]>

Multiple attributes of a room might have the same name.

Multiattributes in Unotal 

< author=[Mary Meyers] author=[Peter Miller] >

A Unotal  room might have a room type. The name of such a type is preceded by an ampersand "&".

A Unotal  room with type "gamma"

< &gamma alpha beta >

A Unotal  room might have multiple types.

A Unotal  room with multiple types

< &public &class >

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