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# $Id: README,v 1.4 2002/12/18 13:40:14 flux Exp $
Zoem is an interpreter for an interpretive language which is called,
as things go, zoem. The pair of them was created by Stijn van Dongen.
From the Zoem User Manual:
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. Two 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 zoem.
The version tag, which is of the form dd-ddd, encodes the year and
day in year in which the distribution was made. So 02-058 encodes the
58-th day of the year 2002.
See LICENSE for copyright and licensing, see THANKS for contributors,
see INSTALL for generic installation instructions.
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