From: Thomas <sanobast-2005a@...>
Date: 2005-03-04T03:36:55+09:00
Subject: [ANN] deplate 0.7.1 - A tool for converting documents written in an unobtrusive, wiki-like markup to LaTeX, HTML, "HTML slides", or DocBook

Hi all,

deplate is a ruby based tool for converting documents written in an 
unobtrusive, wiki-like markup to LaTeX, HTML, “HTML slides”, or docbook. 
It supports page templates, embedded LaTeX code, footnotes, citations, 
bibliographies, automatic generation of an index, table of contents etc. 
It can be used to create web pages and (via LaTeX or Docbook) 
high-quality printouts from the same source. In this respect it is 
similar to tools like aft or txt2tags. deplate probably isn’t suited for 
highly technical documents or documents that require a sophisticated 
graphical layout. For other purposes it should work fine.

deplate aims to be modular and easily extensible. It is the accompanying 
converter for the Vim viki plugin.

 From a ruby developer perspective, deplate can be used as follows:

> require 'deplate/converter'
> 
> t = <<EOF
> * Introduction
> 
> ''deplate'' is a tool for converting wiki-like markup to latex, html, or
> "html-slides".
> EOF
> 
> to_html = Deplate::Converter.new
> puts to_html.convert_string(t)
> 
> to_latex = Deplate::Converter.new("latex")
> puts to_latex.convert_string(t)

deplate can be downloaded from it's sourceforge project site:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/deplate

There is also a gem distribution.

More information about deplate can be found here:

http://deplate.sourceforge.net/

Cheers,
Thomas.