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diff --git a/textproc/zoem/DESCR b/textproc/zoem/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..e539819ce21 --- /dev/null +++ b/textproc/zoem/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Zoem is an interpretive macro language with substantial facilities for +programming. It supports a two-stage process, consisting of macro +interpretation (featuring inside-out evaluation if needed), followed +by a simple and powerful application of stream character filtering. + +Its syntax is remindful of \it{TeX}'s, it has dictionary stacks like +\it{PostScript}, and various resemblances to \it{m4} and \it{info}. +It has interfaces to modules making life easy \- counters, references, +arithmetic, multi-dimensional data storage, input/output operations, +regular expressions, and system commands. + +Zoem is used for creating extendible dummy mark-up languages and +mapping those to real mark-up languages. The dummy languages have all +the power of the zoem primitives available to them. A prime +application is the creation of little mark-up languages that allow +easy preparation of documents for use with different devices. +Examples are the PUD \bf{faq} language and the PUD \bf{man} language, +both of which can be used to generate troff output and html +output. PUD stands for Portable Unix Documentation and is shipped with +Aephea. Aephea itself is an abstraction layer for creating concise +and maintainable HTML documents. |