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-*- text -*-
This is Latte, the Language for Transforming Text.
Latte is copyright 1998,1999 Zanshin Inc. <http://www.zanshin.com/>
The contents of this file are subject to the Zanshin Public
License Version 1.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
except in compliance with the License. You should have received a
copy of the License with Latte; see the file COPYING. You may
also obtain a copy of the License at
<http://www.zanshin.com/ZPL.html>.
Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS
IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or
implied. See the License for the specific language governing
rights and limitations under the License.
The Original Code is Latte.
The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Zanshin, Inc.
Latte was created by Bob Glickstein <http://www.zanshin.com/~bobg> and
is dedicated to the amazing and wonderful Suzanne Glickstein.
Latte is a simple language for marking up text in a very expressive
way. This distribution includes the Latte library, which allows you
to build translators from Latte to any other text format you choose,
and a demonstration application that converts Latte text into HTML,
allowing you to write web pages in a much saner language than HTML.
Complete documentation is available in Texinfo and Info formats in the
Latte distribution. An HTML version of the documentation is available
on the Latte website at <http://www.latte.org/>.
Several aspects of HTML are annoying to write. Using <p> tags in
every paragraph, for example, when it ought to suffice simply to leave
a blank line between paragraphs. Having to match every <foo> with a
</foo>, when other languages allow blocks to be delimited by simple
matching typographical characters like { and }. (Plus, text editors
have a hard time helping you keep constructs like <foo> and </foo>
correctly balanced.) Having to use special magic to include the
characters <, >, &, and ", which are all too common in text documents.
Having no way to define higher-level macros or subroutines for
frequently used constructs.
Latte solves these by introducing a simpler syntax that also has a
facility for defining transformation functions. Here are some
comparisons:
HTML LATTE
<b><i>Bold-italic</i></b> {\b {\i Bold-italic}}
<b><i>Bold-italic</b></i> (ERROR!) (Latte not prone to this error.)
<ul> {\ul {\li First item}
<li>First item {\li Second item}}
<li>Second item
</ul>
<table> {\def {\person \=name \=rank \=serial}
<tr valign=top> {\tr \valign=top
<td><b>Name</b></td> {\td {\b \name}}
<td>Rank</td> {\td \rank}
<td>Serial number</td> {\td \serial}}}
</tr> {\table
<tr valign=top> {\person \name=Name
<td><b>Second name</b></td> \rank=Rank
<td>Second rank</td> \serial={Serial number}}
<td>Second serial number</td> {\person \name={Second name}
</tr> \rank={Second rank}
</table> \serial={Second serial
number}}}
"Penn & Teller" "Penn & Teller"
<p> Not needed; just separate
paragraphs with blank lines
like you normally would.
Any resemblance between the names Latte and LaTeX is purely
coincidental :-)
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