[lewisjoe]

By "annotation items" - you mean the special "boundary characters" that Loro CRDT uses to mark formatting boundaries right?

Yes, Google docs doesn't use such special annotation characters for bold/italics-like formattings. But it does use special boundary characters for marking "comment" boundaries. These characters simplify a few things from a comment perspective (as they shouldn't merge like formatting options). Zoho Writer uses a similar design for differentiating formatting boundaries vs comment boundaries.

> I'd like to take my own stab at rich text in diamond types soon, since I need it for a project. I think there's a cleaner way to do it - though until I write the code, who knows how it'll turn out.

Curious to take a look at your approach. Do write more on your blog Joseph :)

- Joe Lewis