Last despatch from Fable to me

Now that Fable has been “paused” it seemed foolish to drip-feed out the rest of our conversation. It is summarised in this post

For into darkness fell his star

The Fall of Gil-galad, final stanza (© Tolkien Estate)

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The document “A Chat with Fable” is a 34-page 13,874-word document. The main headings are as follows:

1. Executive Summary
2. Images (creation tools in the suite – none)
3. Defensive Markdown (discussion of my proposals)
4. Export routes from Markdown to Word (Pandoc, Lua, direct writing via python-docx)
5. Integration into Microsoft Source Manager (the XML-level approach)
6. Artwork and general nonlinear layouts in Word (SVG the key)
7. Hallucination defences
8. Token use and substitution of LLM tasks by programs
9. Role of JSON in citations in Markdown (defensive citations via pipes)
10. Problems with accessing web sites (taxonomy, headless browsers)
11. Ingestion of Word documents (ingesting mark-up not just text)
12. Both footnotes and endnotes needed (XML methods)
13. Multilingual search (Unicode normalisation, deaccenting, transliteration, CSL issues)
14. Very long documents (doctoral dissertation length)

See the PDF version of the file attached here.

Next steps

The next step is to correlate the know-how and techniques with the competence of lesser LLMs and enssure that they too can use the techniques.

This is now under way – early indications are that other LLMs can also create SVG graphics automatically for use in Word. An SVG sampler will soon be published.