[ale] Text compiler

Ray Vastly rvast938h at gmail.com
Sat Oct 10 17:40:42 EDT 2015


I might be misunderstanding your requirements but I believe you could just
use gcc or your favorite c compiler and use the preprocessor flag on your
text files. The preprocessor should be able to work on any file that has
#include or #define, not just .c or .h files.
On Oct 10, 2015 5:34 PM, "James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:

> You could use a "static site generator" to do it. They are numerous.
> http://www.metalsmith.io/ may be more than what you want, but is very
> high on my list of candidates for when I dump Wordpress.
>
> Or, just use Markdown via Pandoc (http://pandoc.org/).
>
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Calvin Harrigan <
> calvin.harrigan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>     I've been looking for a tool that I can only describe as a text
>> compiler. The basic feature would be the ability to use something like
>> includes within a template file that references external files and compile
>> an output file that would be the amalgam of the text in the template and
>> the text of the referenced files.  Have you come across anything that does
>> this?  I've turned up at least one candidate, but was hoping for some more
>> ideas.  I guess I can code/script something up, but time isn't on my side.
>> Especially if it has been done before.
>>
>> Thanks
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