Allow ⛩️📰 书社 to produce plain text

[Shushe] / README.markdown

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@@ -73,9 +73,13 @@ Compilation involves the following steps :⁠—
 5. ⛩️📰 书社 uses the dependency tree to establish prerequisites for
     each output file.
 
-6. ⛩️📰 书社 compiles each output file to `build/public`.
+6. ⛩️📰 书社 compiles each output file to `build/result`.
 
-7. ⛩️📰 书社 copies the output files to `public`.
+7. ⛩️📰 书社 symlinks most output files from `build/result` to
+     `build/public`, but it does some additional processing instead on
+     those which indicate a non‐X·M·L desired final output form.
+
+8. ⛩️📰 书社 copies the final resulting files to `public`.
 
 You can use `make list` to list each identified source file or include
   alongside its computed type and dependencies.
@@ -126,6 +130,7 @@ In every case, you may supply your own implementation by overriding the
 - `touch`
 - `tr` (requires support for `-d`)
 - `uuencode` (requires support for `-m` and `-r`)
+- `uudecode` (requires support for `-m` and `-r`)
 - `xargs` (requires support for `-0`)
 - `xmlcatalog` (provided by `libxml2`)
 - `xmllint` (provided by `libxml2`)
@@ -522,8 +527,8 @@ This mechanism can be used to allow transforms to insert content
 Output wrapping can be entirely disabled by adding a
   `@书社:disable-output-wrapping` attribute to the top‐level element in
   the result tree.
-This attribute will also prevent wrapping non‐H·T·M·L embeds with an
-  `<html:div>`.
+It will not be performed on outputs whose root elements are
+  `<书社:raw-text>` or `<书社:base64-binary>` (described below).
 
 ## Applying Attributes
 
@@ -546,6 +551,22 @@ Both elements ignore attributes in the `xml:` namespace, except for
 On H·T·M·L and S·V·G elements, `@lang` has the same behaviour as
   `@xml:lang`.
 
+## Other Kinds of Output
+
+There are a few special elements in the `书社:` namespace which, if
+  they appear as the toplevel element in a transformation result, cause
+  ⛩️📰 书社 to produce something other than an X·M·L file.
+They are :⁠—
+
+- **`<书社:raw-text>`:**
+  A plaintext (U·T·F‐8) file will be produced from the text nodes in
+    the transformation result.
+
+- **`<书社:base64-binary>`:**
+  The text nodes in the transformation result will, after removing all
+    Ascii whitespace, be treated as a Base·64 string, which is then
+    decoded.
+
 ## License
 
 This repository conforms to [REUSE][].