A macro and/or template processor written in Tcl for Tcl. 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.
- 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