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Charles Childers
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Those following the irc channel and/or my blog know that I've been working on a custom markup language for documentation. I've got the primary markups done and have begun writing a few scripts to generate ascii text and html output. (Other formats of output are coming).
These tools are written as a retroforth program (needs a copy of the development builds of 8.3) and a bash shell script wrapper. (The wrapper is entirely optional and just provided to save some typing).
As to example documentation, there is a simple README, a copy of the RDML specification, and a copy of the Rx Handbook included (look in the publications directory for the latter two).
Anyway, if anyone is interested, get a copy of RDML Tools and give them a try. Comments from anyone who actually tries to write anything in RDML would be appreciated.
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Helmar
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TUCK what??? SWAP OVER!!!
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Sorry, Charles,
the language has the same charme as groff or in parts also "unified hexdump" (alias XML). Why not make something that has the potential to be a TeX-killer? You would not need much. Important is a better way to markup things. If you only want to copy groff, use groff instead. Or use ... (your favourite discontinued document markup language) ... Perl has PODs, of course - but it's no reason to make the same mistakes. I personally prefer TeX as word processor. A better idea would be to implement something like web2c for FORTH, eg. a "web24", that compiles the web/pascal source to FORTH. I would think this is much more useful.
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) with the proper words and macros.
