In the Udanax Green design (and presumably in the Gold design as well) links are used to indicate all of the formatting instead of inline markup. The link type tumbler(s) of a link indicates how the link should be interpreted by the front-end. Unfortunately assigning functionality to link types was never formally done except in the most superficial way.

If we are going to build real interoperable xanalogical systems using the Udanax design, we are going to need to come up with a basic set of link type identifiers for both linking and formatting. Udanax Green's documentation has the following set predefined"

This is the list of proposed link types listed in [LM 93.1] on pages 4/52 to 4/55:

Formatting, layout and typography issues are glossed over, however it is clear to me (JohnDougan) that making a reasonable set of formatting links is important for initial acceptance.

Initially I propose that we use a basic formatting that corresponds roughly to the functionality found in wiki's and in HTML without CSS or frames. At the very least basic text transformation should be provided:

Later we could expand the basic set to the point where the CSS level of rendering functionality.