Markdown Redesign

As the previous page explains, a lot of time passed after I started on the FE, to now. I had time to think about it, and one fact kept nagging at me: I was trying to create a radically different editing front end which could handle the difficult asynchronous nature of how the user's edits get tokenised, and updates come back to the editor - but the user may have typed more in the interim, and there likely will be clashes.

I was also concerned that this new editor probably will have bugs and be incomplete for months - but I want to test it out on my own manuscript.

I did not want to trust it with my own manuscript.

I was making it too complex. So I decided upon a staged approach using a markdown editor as the front end, with meta data embedded in the markdown for the semantics.

I discussed this with the LLM and came up with a plan: