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wml::fmt::text(3) EN Tools wml::fmt::text(3)

NAME

wml::fmt::text - Plain ASCII with Special Formatting Semantic

SYNOPSIS

 #use wml::fmt::text
 <: print &wml_fmt_text({ FILE => $file, OPTIONS => '--xhtml', ...}); :>
 <text notypo>
 FOO
 ===
 1. bar
 2. quux
    a. baz
    b. foo
 ...
 </text>

DESCRIPTION

The usage is simple: Surround the text with the "<text>" container tag and then just write plain ASCII text inside it. The corresponding HTML code is created via txt2html(3), a filter which gives the ASCII text nice formatting semantic which control the HTML result.

If OPTIONS field is specified, a newer txt2html(1) filter is called instead of txt2html, which is dead upstream. This allows for instance generation of XHTML markup.

The core conversion function is wml_fmt_text() which also can be used by other include files.

ATTRIBUTES

These attributes can be used both in the "<text>" tag (in lowercase letters) and in "wml_fmt_text"'s arguments, as shown in the examples above.

"NOTYPO"
By default, font commands are added to headings to highlight them. This attribute prevents alteration of txt2html's output.
"OPTIONS=str"
This attribute performs two actions: select txt2html as a filter instead of txt2html, and make str arguments be passed literally on the command line of txt2html.

AUTHOR

 Ralf S. Engelschall
 rse@engelschall.com
 www.engelschall.com

REQUIRES

 Internal: P1, P2, P3, txt2html (WML)
 External: --

SEE ALSO

txt2html(1)

2020-11-29 EN Tools