Redesign file format

[spacekookie]

This is a tracking issue about two aspects of the file format

• Text encoding format (right now json, soon to be xml)
• Folder structure for a novel and universe

Text encoding

• Rust struct with simple serde Serialize/Deserialize attributes
• Custom xml en-/decoder, working with some schema

Basic elements

• <metadata> tags at the top of a document
  • Scene name
  • authors
  • creation/ modification date
  • <note> sections to display in info panel
• <text> section contains the main body
  • <paragraph> sections around a paragraph.
  • Question: <sentence> sections around sentences?
  • <style foo> sections around style elements
    • bold
    • italics
    • underline
    • h1
    • h2
    • h3
  • <comment> sections around inline comments

File structure

The following outlines the way files could be arranged

my_novel/
├── meta
├── metadata.novel
├── script
│   ├── chapter_a
│   │   └── scene1.xml
│   ├── chapter_b
│   │   ├── scene1.xml
│   │   ├── scene2.xml
│   │   └── scene3.xml
│   ├── chapter_c
│   │   ├── scene1.xml
│   │   └── scene2.xml
│   └── chapter_d
│       ├── scene1.xml
│       ├── scene2.xml
│       └── scene3.xml
└── universe
    ├── characters
    │   ├── alice_bob.xml
    │   └── jane_smith.xml
    ├── metadata.universe
    ├── places
    │   ├── london_underground.xml
    │   └── paris_cafe.xml
    └── templates
        ├── character.xml
        ├── conversation.xml
        ├── family_tree.xml
        └── location.xml