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Ropes: an Alternative to Strings

<https://www.cs.rit.edu/usr/local/pub/jeh/courses/QUARTERS/FP/Labs/CedarRope/rope-paper.pdf>

another approach is standoff annotations: <https://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/_discuss/thread/1e0e4acb/13db/attachment/A%20Generic%20Formalism%20for%20Encoding%20Standoff%20annotations%20in%20TEI.pdf|https://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/_discuss/thread/1e0e4acb/13db/attachment/A%20Generic%20Formalism%20for%20Encoding%20Standoff%20annotations%20in%20TEI.pdf>