The 'Master' Document

We are actually going to start at the end and show you the 'end game' first. This should make the intermediate steps regarding the preparation of a document for document dis-assembly more understandable.

The goal of document preparation is the creation of what we have dubbed a "Master Document." It contains all of the markings necessary for Pathagoras to perform a quick and accurate disassembly of the Master into its marked components.

Figure 1 below is a sample 'source document'. It represents any document that you can select for disassembly. Figure 2 represents a fully marked Master Document. To get from the first to the second, we Pathagorized the original (adding variables in place of real names and numbers) and we then added the additional markup characters to denote the begin and end points of each clause, as well as the name and subject that we want to assign to each disassembled clause. (Just to head this question off at the pass, the coloring you will see in Figure 2 is for illustration purposes. It is in no way a requirement of a Master Document.)

Figure 1. A base form. This can be any document that currently resides in your computer.
We selected a Last Will and Testament as the sample document.

Figure 2. A 'Master Document', properly Pathagorized ('neutered')
and marked up for dis-assembly.
To make it easier for you to see the essential parts,
we have painted the boundary markers in blue, the clause names in green,
the subjects in orange and the slashes in red.

The essential parts of a Master Document are:

•	A marker ('<&') that denotes the beginning of each clause you wish to covert to a building block;

•	A name that you want to assign to the clause when it is disassembled, concluded by a slash ('/');

•	A subject (optional) that you want to assign to the clause when it is disassembled, concluded by a slash; and

•	A marker ('&>') that denotes the end of the text block to be disassembled.

NOTES: To reiterate, the colors in the above example are for emphasis only. Colors are in no manner required for preparation of the Master Document. All essential parts are in plain text. This plain text approach makes it easier for you copy, move, delete, add to, duplicate and otherwise edit the document until it reflects what you wish.