Subject: Yodl 1.31 released - Yet oneOther Document Language Yodl -- Yet oneOther Document Language

Yodl -- Yet oneOther Document Language

Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke@gnu.org Karel Kubat karel@icce.rug.nl Frank B. Brokken frank@icce.rug.nl

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?

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

    subscribe
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and submit your postings to yodl@icce.rug.nl thereafter.


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Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999 Karel Kubat and Jan Nieuwenhuizen.

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