So, minor update after discussion above:
Code:
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I'm sort of liking this; I think it achieves two things -- it is parseable for utilities/macros and it is human-readable and human-editable. Oh, and completely invisible to a person just reading the book. Hopefully it puts everything that you need to know about the following file right at the top, where you can use it to re-write CSS, or pick a version number, or whatever.
If for some reason a person
only had this file, would it be easy to recreate the rest?
I guess the final thing it could need is a manifest of image/sounds that it references.
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