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RDoc::Markup parses plain text documents and attempts to decompose them into their constituent parts. Some of these parts are high-level: paragraphs, chunks of verbatim text, list entries and the like. Other parts happen at the character level: a piece of bold text, a word in code font. This markup is similar in spirit to that used on WikiWiki webs, where folks create web pages using a simple set of formatting rules.

RDoc::Markup itself does no output formatting: this is left to a different set of classes.

RDoc::Markup is extendable at runtime: you can add new markup elements to be recognised in the documents that RDoc::Markup parses.

RDoc::Markup is intended to be the basis for a family of tools which share the common requirement that simple, plain-text should be rendered in a variety of different output formats and media. It is envisaged that RDoc::Markup could be the basis for formatting RDoc style comment blocks, Wiki entries, and online FAQs.

Synopsis

This code converts input_string to HTML. The conversion takes place in the convert method, so you can use the same RDoc::Markup converter to convert multiple input strings.

require 'rdoc/markup/to_html'

h = RDoc::Markup::ToHtml.new

puts h.convert(input_string)

You can extend the RDoc::Markup parser to recognise new markup sequences, and to add special processing for text that matches a regular expression. Here we make WikiWords significant to the parser, and also make the sequences {word} and <no>text…</no> signify strike-through text. When then subclass the HTML output class to deal with these:

require 'rdoc/markup'
require 'rdoc/markup/to_html'

class WikiHtml < RDoc::Markup::ToHtml
  def handle_special_WIKIWORD(special)
    "<font color=red>" + special.text + "</font>"
  end
end

m = RDoc::Markup.new
m.add_word_pair("{", "}", :STRIKE)
m.add_html("no", :STRIKE)

m.add_special(/\b([A-Z][a-z]+[A-Z]\w+)/, :WIKIWORD)

wh = WikiHtml.new
wh.add_tag(:STRIKE, "<strike>", "</strike>")

puts "<body>#{wh.convert ARGF.read}</body>"

Constants

SPACE = ?\s\s

SIMPLE_LIST_RE = /^( ( \* (?# bullet) |- (?# bullet) |\d+\. (?# numbered ) |[A-Za-z]\. (?# alphabetically numbered ) ) \s+ )\S/x

LABEL_LIST_RE = /^( ( \[.*?\] (?# labeled ) |\S.*:: (?# note ) )(?:\s+|$) )/x

AttrChanger = Struct.new(:turn_on, :turn_off)

Attributes

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