[ale] Text compiler

[Calvin Harrigan]

On 10/10/2015 6:26 PM, Byron Jeff wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 05:40:42PM -0400, Ray Vastly wrote:
>>     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.
> If that's the case then the m4 macro processor is probably a better tool.
>
> BAJ
>
>>     On Oct 10, 2015 5:34 PM, "James Sumners" <[1]james.sumners at gmail.com>
>>     wrote:
>>
>>     You could use a "static site generator" to do it. They are
>>     numerous. [2]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 ([3]http://pandoc.org/).
>>
>>     On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Calvin Harrigan
>>     <[4]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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>> References
>>
>>     1. mailto:james.sumners at gmail.com
>>     2. http://www.metalsmith.io/
>>     3. http://pandoc.org/
>>     4. mailto:calvin.harrigan at gmail.com
>>     5. mailto:Ale at ale.org
>>     6. http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>>     7. http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>>     8. http://james.sumners.info/
>>     9. http://jrfom.com/
>>    10. http://haplo.bandcamp.com/
>>    11. mailto:Ale at ale.org
>>    12. http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
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Hmmm,  I'll look into this.