otl reads a file written in a user-specified syntax and generates a second text file in a corresponding user-specified markup. The default conversion is from a simple, readable text file syntax to XHTML.
otl can be used for other conversions since the source file syntax and the output syntax can both be largely defined by the user. otl can process complex structures such as ordered and unordered lists (nested or unnested), add custom "headers" and "footers" to documents, etc.
conversion of simple text to HTML
input file using a custom syntax and the output file
using otl to insert a copyright notice into a set of web pages
otl was written to facilitate quickly generation of an HTML document (e.g., a set of lecture notes, an outline, a handout, etc.) from a simple text document.
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