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I'm targeting people who are writing documents: bloggers, academics, textbook writers, that sort of thing. Certainly Nota requires a level of technical expertise to use right now, but I have a WYSIWYG editor as a distant-future TODO.

If you read my original paper about Nota, you can find a more interesting set of applications: https://willcrichton.net/nota/

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Ah, thank you. That paper makes a lot more sense to me, describing a clear problem. For others:

The principal question underlying this work is: how much effort does it take to understand a PL paper?

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Papers about programming languages involve complex notations, systems, and proofs. Static PDFs offer little support in understanding such concepts. I describe Nota, a framework for academic papers that uses the browser's interactive capabilities to support comprehension in context. Nota uses hover effects, tooltips, expandable sections, toggleable explanations, and other interactions to help readers understand a language's syntax and semantics.

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