Skip to content

Glossary

Status

  • Informative reference
  • Version: 0.9.0
  • Layer: Public reader orientation

Core Terms

Term Meaning
Artifact The universal canonical root node of every Rhoe document.
MatterEnvelope The universal three-part structure containing frontMatter, mainMatter, and backMatter.
carrierArchetype The root-level discriminator that selects the major artifact family.
compositionGrammarRef The root binding to a carrier-aware composition grammar pack.
genre A root-level rhetorical or semantic classification.
Section The first level of universal semantic nesting inside the artifact body.
Subsection The second level of universal semantic nesting.
SubSubsection The third level of universal semantic nesting.

Source Surfaces

Term Meaning
rhoemd The primary humane authoring surface for Rhoe artifacts.
rhoedsl A structure-first humane source surface aligned closely to the canonical AST.
RhoeJSON The canonical machine-neutral serialized notation of the AST.
RhoeTypst The official Typst-near target-source surface.
RhoeLaTeX The official LaTeX-near target-source surface.
RhoeHTML The official HTML-near target-source surface.

Carrier Families

Term Meaning
stageFrame A deeply elaborated carrier for presentation-like frame structures.
codexSpread A carrier for structured spread-style artifact pages.
scrollStream A carrier for long-form scrollable narrative or review streams.
tableauPageCollage A carrier for tableau-style page collage artifacts.
sheetField A carrier for worksheet-like structured fields.
ledgerRegister A carrier for register, ledger, or risk-tracking artifacts.
box A carrier for collection-like box artifacts.
conversationThread A carrier for conversational or threaded review artifacts.

Runtime and Publication Terms

Term Meaning
realization A target-side emitted or rendered form derived from the canonical AST.
realization profile A named target-specific emission profile.
realization pack A package that supplies target templates, runtime entrypoints, or target-specific support files.
composition grammar pack A package that supplies carrier-aware composition grammar entries.
fixture suite The canonical corpus used to test schema, parser, writer, and emitter conformance.
compatibility input A deprecated but still parseable source form that lowers to canonical 0.9.0 semantics.
canonical writer A writer that emits preferred canonical forms rather than compatibility-only spellings.