[ale] Text compiler

Calvin Harrigan calvin.harrigan at gmail.com
Sat Oct 10 18:41:18 EDT 2015


On 10/10/2015 6:34 PM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> On 10/10/2015 05:14 PM, Calvin Harrigan 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.
>>
>
> If you want outputs like HTML, there are lots of templating tools -
> TemplateToolkit http://www.template-toolkit.org/
>
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Thanks, I'm looking for something that does just plain text.


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