Papermill Press – An AI-friendly markup language for PDF generation
Markup language built for print layout instead of fighting HTML's screen-first design.

Another markup language when Markdown, AsciiDoc, and reStructuredText dominate.
Developers building document systems, static site generators
Markdown · AsciiDoc · reStructuredText
Longform exports full documents or HTML fragments, allowing a parent program to piece together the fragments into its own markup. And directives can be used to extend the language.
Take a look at https://longform.occultist.dev for the working spec. If you want to test it out, I've built a really basic static site generator at https://stat.occultist.dev.
Markup language built for print layout instead of fighting HTML's screen-first design.
Typed markup blocks competing against Markdown's entrenched ecosystem.
Single-file UI language for AI generation, but no evidence it reduces tokens vs normal dev flow.
One structural model unifying code, data, and markup where JSON and XML diverge.
10x token efficiency + pixel-perfect determinism fixes LLM PDF generation without the HTML chaos.
ANML proposes a new protocol for agents, but adoption depends on an unproven agentic web.