Comic markup/microformat ideas

comicFormat

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Format:
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Comic
  panel (scene)
    -description*
    person/thing/offscreen
      -dialog/soundeffect
    caption/narration
      -text

(* = optional)


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Example:
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<comic>
  <panel description="A glossy meadow in central park. Two ducks sit by a pond.">
    <person is="Duck" />
    <dialog from="Duck">
      I love wet weather!
    </dialog>

    <person is="Drake" />
    <dialog from="Drake">
      Me, too, sugar muffins.
    </div>

    <dialog from="Duck">
      Who you calling 'sugar muffins?'
    </dialog>
  </panel>
  
  <panel description="The ducks are startled by a noise.">
    <dialog from="offscreen">
      WOOF!
    </dialog>

    <person is="Duck" />
    <person is="Drake" />

    <dialog from="Drake Duck">
      Eek!
    </div>

  </panel>

  <panel description="Somewhere, in the distance, a phone is ringing.">
    <narration>
      We had no idea our ducky lives were about to change forever...
    </narration>
    
    <thing is="phonebooth" title="Phone Booth" /> <!--use title where "is" might be nonsensical, i.e. if it's a long name w/ spaces-->

    <dialog from="phonebooth">
      Rrrrring!
    </dialog>
    
    <caption>
      To be continued...
    </caption>
  </panel>
</comic>


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Note
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Naturally we don't have tags like this. But if we can find things that already behave this way, perhaps a microformat solution could be agreed upon. It all comes down to usage and adoption.