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brendonh edited this page Sep 13, 2010 · 3 revisions

Pyth – Python text markup and conversion

Pyth is intended to make it easy to convert marked-up text between different common formats.

Marked-up text means text which has:

Paragraphs
Headings
Bold, italic, and underlined text
Hyperlinks
Bullet lists
Simple tables
Very little else

Formats I initially want to support are:

xhtml
rtf
pdf (output)

These three formats cover web, Word / OpenOffice, and print.

Design principles:

Ignore unsupported information in input formats (e.g. page layout)
Ignore font issues — output in a single font.
Ignore specific text sizes — support relative sizes (bigger, littler) only. Output in a single base size.
Have no dependencies unless they are written in Python, and work
Make it easy to add support for new formats, by using an architecture based on ***plugins*** and ***adapters***.