[ale] Text compiler

[Ed Cashin]

I used to use awk and perl for this kind of thing, and it's worth
mentioning that server side includes (SSI) do this.

These days, though, I'd use jinja2 or another templating library. I have
successfully used jinja2 to generate text other than HTML, including MS
rich text format documents and LaTeX documents.

Using m4 is fun for historical reasons. The configuration of sendmail was
done by generating the config files from m4 sources. The configure script
that autoconf makes is also generated using m4, I believe.
On Oct 10, 2015 8:02 PM, "Pete Hardie" <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> There's always awk
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 7:15 PM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/10/2015 06:41 PM, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
>> > On 10/10/2015 6:34 PM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>> >> On 10/10/2015 05:14 PM, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
>> >>> Hi all,
>> >>>      I've been looking for a tool that I can only describe as a text
>> >>> compiler. The basic feature would be the ability to use something like
>> >>> includes within a template file that references external files and
>> >>> compile an output file that would be the amalgam of the text in the
>> >>> template and the text of the referenced files.  Have you come across
>> >>> anything that does this?  I've turned up at least one candidate, but
>> was
>> >>> hoping for some more ideas.  I guess I can code/script something up,
>> but
>> >>> time isn't on my side. Especially if it has been done before.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> If you want outputs like HTML, there are lots of templating tools -
>> >> TemplateToolkit http://www.template-toolkit.org/
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>> > Thanks, I'm looking for something that does just plain text.
>>
>> It can.
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