Scribble as Preprocessor

8.6

Scribble as Preprocessor

Matthew Flatt
and Eli Barzilay

The scribble/text and scribble/html languages act as “preprocessor” languages for generating text or HTML. These preprocessor languages use the same @ syntax as the main Scribble tool (see Scribble: The Racket Documentation Tool), but instead of working in terms of a document abstraction that can be rendered to text and HTML (and other formats), the preprocessor languages work in a way that is more specific to the target formats.

1 Text Generation

1.1 Writing Text Files

1.2 Defining Functions and More

1.3 Using Printouts

1.4 Indentation in Preprocessed output

1.5 Using External Files

1.6 Text Generation Functions

2 HTML Generation

2.1 Generating HTML Strings

2.1.1 Other HTML elements

2.2 Generating XML Strings

2.3 HTML Resources

Index