otl
otl is a text processor for generating custom markup from plain text supplemented with lightweight markup. Much of both the input and output formats can be customized. HTML output, along with experimental DocBook and LaTeX output implementations, are included. otl supports complex structures such as nested ordered and unordered lists, headers and footers, and tables.
| Tags | Text Processing General |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | OS Independent |
| Implementation | Perl |
Recent releases
- 06 Jun 2009 01:41
Changes: This release adds significant improvement in list handling, along with several other added features and bugfixes.
- 27 Apr 2009 21:06
Changes: New features include docbook output and support for generation of a table of contents. This release also includes several minor improvements and bugfixes; in particular, table generation works much better than in earlier versions.
- 21 May 2008 23:25
Changes: This release includes one significant bug fix (a parameter line specifying empty strings would bring otl 0.53 to its knees). The release also includes some minor updates reducing unnecessary queries to the user and some minor updates to the documentation.
- 22 Mar 2008 22:34
Changes: A number of new features have been added. Conversion to LaTeX is now supported. Installation is simplified. A number of other minor enhancements include an --assume-yes option (to facilitate automated document processing), support for tables of contents, better handling of special characters (in TeX and HTML), and improvement of the default CSS style appearance. Several minor bugfixes include improvements in list processing, increased care with substitutions, and better handling of blank lines in the source file.
- 24 Jan 2008 07:51
Changes: This release includes significant improvements, including a number of bugfixes and significant additional features. Enhancements include an altered default syntax and improved support for CSS styling. Fixes include correct handling of filenames without suffices, correct handling of blank list items, as well as several minor fixes.
