Yodl -- Yet oneOther Document Language
1998
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This message is in the Yodl document language. What better way
to demonstrate? If you see a lot of parentheses, just read over them.
This `source' format should be readable nevertheless. The same text
is included at the end formatted as plain ASCII. If you want the full
documentation, visit http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/hanwen/yodl/
What is Yodl?
Yodl is a high-level document language. The package comes with a a
set of converters to some major document languages, e.g. LaTeX, Unix
"man" and SGMS, HTML. The idea of using converters is not really
unique, but Yodl provides converters in one package, so that
the various conversions should have a more consistent look.
What's new since 1.22?
- it's now unmistakably released under the GNU GPL (Yodl has
been GPL'd a long time ago, but previous versions still contained
leftovers of a questionable license. All has been resolved and
cleared up now.)
- it has a (new) maintainer. As of June 6, 1998 (or thereabouts)
Yodl is maintained by Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke@gnu.org
- texinfo converter
- latex2e converter (latex209 is deprecated)
- more managable configure/make/install/dist structure
- experimental support for embedding other languages; For example,
Yodl supports integration with GNU LilyPond's mudela language
- .rpm and .deb binary package support
- lots of bugfixes
Why Yodl?
The whole purpose of Yodl is to provide a simple-to-use and extensible
document language, that can be used to convert documents in the Yodl
format to a variety of other formats. For this reason Yodl somewhat
resembles generalised markup languages, (Standard
Generalized Markup Language) but:
How easy to use is it?
Yodl is quite easy to use. Typing parentheses is less work than typing
<> or \{}. And, Yodl doesn't insist on weird tags. In that respect
(starting and ending tags) Yodl is not a markup language. Yodl handles
all its commands in a C-style manner, e.g. em(...)
will set the
text emphasized.
What can it do?
Currently, the package supports conversions to LaTeX, HTML, SGML, "man"
format, "ms" format, semi-automatic conversion to Texinfo and
a poor-man's conversion to plain ASCII. It should be fairly easy to
add other conversions.
Where to get it?
Sources are available from
ftp://ftp.lilypond.org/pub/yodl Europe (binary releases too)
More detailed info can be found on the webpage
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/hanwen/yodl/
Who should I contact ?
For the benefit of Yodl-users the Yodl mailing list exists.
Subscribe to the list by sending email to yodl-request@icce.rug.nl,
containing the lines
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