Dalet

Markup language ecosystem сombining small file size, big number of possibilities for describing the interface and readability.

Specification

Rust implementation

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Warning

Specification and rust implementation is not complete and very unstable.

Concept

This is DaletMark (high level language that compiles to DaletPack).

# multilines
#
# {text} - input is trimmed with indent
#
# {~n text} - n is number of minimum spaces to add after trimming with indent
# for each line
#
# {#text} - input not modified
#
#
# tag syntax
#
# tag: text body
# tag { multiline text body }
# body text always trimmed
#
# tag [ multiple tags body ]
#
# Arguments
# tag argument
#
# Tags without body and argument also supported
#
#
# custom no tag syntax
#
# {-text} - paragraph, text indent is trimmed
# [[tags]] - element tag with body of multiple tags
# text - element tag with text body
meta "title": DaletMark syntax concept
meta "description": This document describes DaletMark syntax and some tags
h1: TxtDot revolution
p: TxtDot is a cool project
# If no tag is specified, but "- text" present, then the 'el' tag is placed
- This is element
br
# if no tag is specified but a '{- text}' is present, then the 'p' tag is placed
# '\n' is replaced with ' ' in this format.
{-
Check Dalet too
This is one paragraph
}
{-
This is another paragraph ({- text\})
}
row "center" [
link "https://github.com/txtdot/txtdot": Homepage
btn "https://example.com/donate" [
# tag without body
img "https://example.com/donate.png"
- Donate
]
]
# [] for multiple tags
row [
# if no tag is specified but a '[[]]' is present, then the 'el' tag
# with multiple tags body placed
[[
h2: Features
ul [
- Server-side page simplification
- Media proxy
- Image compression with Sharp
- Rendering client-side apps `Vanilla, React, Vue, etc` with webder
- Search with SearXNG
- Handy API endpoints
- No client JavaScript
- Some kind of Material Design 3
- Customization with plugins, see @txtdot/sdk and @txtdot/plugins
]
]]
[[
h2: Running
[[
h3: Dev
# {} for multiline strings, indent is automatically trimmed
code {
npm install
npm run dev
}
# {~n Text} n is number of minimum spaces
code "markdown" {~4
this is codeblock
}
# {# Text} Text after "{#" not modified
code "markdown" {# this is codeblock}
]]
[[
h3: Production
code {
npm install
npm run build
npm run start
}
]]
[[
h3: Docker
code: docker compose up -d
]]
]]
]
# Table has custom format
# +[[ cells ]] - primary column
# [ cells ] - secondary column
# [ Element | Description ] - converts to
# trow [
# Element
# Description
# ]
{> table
[[ Tag | Description ]]
[ h | Heading ]
[ p | Paragraph ]
[ img | Image ]
[ link | Link ]
[ btn | Button ]
[ ul | Unordered list ]
[ br | Line break ]
[[ quantity | 7 ]]
}