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From: Arndt Roger Schneider on 9 Jun 2010 05:30
Zhang Weiwu schrieb:

>In some part of the program I am writing I need to display a
>content-rich text by reading it from a file. By content-rich, I mean it
>have title level 1 to 3, uses oblique, bold style for some text. The
>original purpose is to display product description and welcome text, but
>later my user make much more use of this and display a lot other text,
>like, board of directors introduction.
>
>asciidoc would work well for my case, so does any lightweight markup
>language like bbcode. HTML is a bit too complicated because my "novice"
>users want to update it by themselves. So I think what I need is a
>rendering engine written in tcl for a lightweight markup language. Is
>there such a tool and how mature is it?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>P.S. My homework including reading this article which didn't give any
>read-to-use products or tools but only mostly ideas, or code that was
>said to be done but not published:
>
>A wiki-like markup language for the text widget
><http://wiki.tcl.tk/_/ref?N=3084>
>
>Also I checked syntax highlight library offered by tkoutline but found
>two problems.
>
> 1. it doesn't work on tk8.5 (is okay with tk8.4), while my exiting
> application made too much use of tcl/k8.5
> 2. It take some work to customize the library to display headline
> etc, and not sure in case *bold* can it hide the asterisk when
> making "bold" bold
>
>However it has the potential to be improved to an asciidoc rendering
>engine, out side of my project's time scope though.
>
>Another homework I did is to check lightweight markup language comparison
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language
>only to find none are supported by tcl.
>
>I checked there exist a basic HTML rendering engine: scrolledhtml
><http://wiki.tcl.tk/_/ref?N=2306> and htext
><http://wiki.tcl.tk/_/ref?N=1848>
>
>





Your conclusion seems correct so-far.

+ The gridplus package appears to have some htmlish markup, too
http://www.satisoft.com/tcltk/gridplus/text.html


+ Jeszra's code generation could also being extended to handle
asciidoc import, but than the text-code generation is trivial --it
hardly warrants the effort...

Are you planning to use asciidoc as the front-end for a docbook toolchain?


-roger

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