Point taken re. binary & information theoery. I'll step back from general wire protocol, to fixed frame, formatted wire protocols that have 'syntax'. I claim the above header is a kind of 'text'. The +0.5D you mention is sometimes internalized, in this case we have a fixed format, in other cases, we have internalized syntax and grammar rules of a language.
The fact that text can be spatially arranged or annotated, for presentation or clarity, touches on the malleability characteristic of text. Consider text before information systems. (Per my understanding, most punctuation are rather 'modern' additions to writing systems with earlier texts in the same language only using word and sentence delimiters.)
Maybe these folks needed 'documents' to be of a certain shape (for storage, transit, etc.) so there are no extant examples of e.g. an elongated baked clay tablet for linear transcription. It is accepted that there is a 'windowing' aspect of any form of 'reading' text. I posit that all formatting meta-information is strictly a windowing concern and not fundamental to text itself.
https://gwb.blob.core.windows.net/markpearl/Windows-Live-Wri...
Point taken re. binary & information theoery. I'll step back from general wire protocol, to fixed frame, formatted wire protocols that have 'syntax'. I claim the above header is a kind of 'text'. The +0.5D you mention is sometimes internalized, in this case we have a fixed format, in other cases, we have internalized syntax and grammar rules of a language.
The fact that text can be spatially arranged or annotated, for presentation or clarity, touches on the malleability characteristic of text. Consider text before information systems. (Per my understanding, most punctuation are rather 'modern' additions to writing systems with earlier texts in the same language only using word and sentence delimiters.)
https://www.worldhistory.org/img/r/p/750x750/5037.jpg
Maybe these folks needed 'documents' to be of a certain shape (for storage, transit, etc.) so there are no extant examples of e.g. an elongated baked clay tablet for linear transcription. It is accepted that there is a 'windowing' aspect of any form of 'reading' text. I posit that all formatting meta-information is strictly a windowing concern and not fundamental to text itself.