passages-atomic-markdown-becomes-objects-preserved-lineage

# Atomic Markdown becomes a publishing system when... > Atomic Markdown becomes a publishing system when the marked manuscript is interpreted as a provenance-preserving publication graph rather than as a collection of clever punctuation marks. A source document can generate many reusable passage pages, and a single passage can contain many independently marked quotation objects. The passage receives its own page and poster, while every constituent quotation fans out into a separate quotation page and quotation poster. The passage page presents the complete paragraph, preserves the quotations nested within it, and provides previews and links to all of their individual pages and posters. Each quotation page, in turn, retains a route back to the containing passage, and the passage retains its route back to the source document. The result is not a chain of isolated derivatives but a branching system of independently viable objects with preserved lineage. **Source:** [[projects/The Argument in Miniature - How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose|The Argument in Miniature: How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Atomic Markdown becomes a publishing system when the marked manuscript is interpreted as a provenance-preserving publication graph rather than as a collection of clever punctuation marks. A source document can generate many reusable passage pages, and a single passage can contain many independently marked quotation objects. The passage receives its own page and poster, while every constituent quotation fans out into a separate quotation page and quotation poster. The passage page presents the complete paragraph, preserves the quotations nested within it, and provides previews and links to all of their individual pages and posters. Each quotation page, in turn, retains a route back to the containing passage, and the passage retains its route back to the source document. The result is not a chain of isolated derivatives but a branching system of independently viable objects with preserved lineage.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-atomic-markdown-becomes-objects-preserved-lineage ```