Version 11 of expand

Updated 2004-08-13 16:15:12 by AK

Not to be confused with {expand}

A macro and/or template processor written in Tcl for Tcl, by William Duquette. See http://www.wjduquette.com/expand/index.html for its homepage.

This is a useful tool for conversion of tcl-based documents into other formats. The range of applications include

  • Generation of website with uniform look & feel. See the homepage [L1 ] of the expand author, or AK's memchan website at SourceForge [L2 ] for examples of this.
  • Conversion of manpages in a tcl-based markup to HTML, nroff, TMML, etc. See doctools.
  • Generation and setup of Makefiles for an extension based upon a template.
  • Provide a generic support to update a set of files depending on single definition file (tcl script)

All of this falls under the broad category of Template and Macro processing.

[ Category Application | Category Package, a part of Tcllib (/textutil) | Category Command ]