Class SM::SimpleMarkup
In: markup/simple_markup.rb
Parent: Object

Synopsis

This code converts input_string, which is in the format described in markup/simple_markup.rb, to HTML. The conversion takes place in the convert method, so you can use the same SimpleMarkup object to convert multiple input strings.

  require 'rdoc/markup/simple_markup'
  require 'rdoc/markup/simple_markup/to_html'

  p = SM::SimpleMarkup.new
  h = SM::ToHtml.new

  puts p.convert(input_string, h)

You can extend the SimpleMarkup parser to recognise new markup sequences, and to add special processing for text that matches a regular epxression. Here we make WikiWords significant to the parser, and also make the sequences {word} and <no>text...</no> signify strike-through text. When then subclass the HTML output class to deal with these:

  require 'rdoc/markup/simple_markup'
  require 'rdoc/markup/simple_markup/to_html'

  class WikiHtml < SM::ToHtml
    def handle_special_WIKIWORD(special)
      "<font color=red>" + special.text + "</font>"
    end
  end

  p = SM::SimpleMarkup.new
  p.add_word_pair("{", "}", :STRIKE)
  p.add_html("no", :STRIKE)

  p.add_special(/\b([A-Z][a-z]+[A-Z]\w+)/, :WIKIWORD)

  h = WikiHtml.new
  h.add_tag(:STRIKE, "<strike>", "</strike>")

  puts "<body>" + p.convert(ARGF.read, h) + "</body>"

Output Formatters

missing

Methods

Constants

SPACE = ?\s
SIMPLE_LIST_RE = /^( ( \* (?# bullet) |- (?# bullet) |\d+\. (?# numbered ) |[A-Za-z]\. (?# alphabetically numbered ) ) \s+ )\S/x   List entries look like:
 *       text
 1.      text
 [label] text
 label:: text

Flag it as a list entry, and work out the indent for subsequent lines

LABEL_LIST_RE = /^( ( \[.*?\] (?# labeled ) |\S.*:: (?# note ) )(?:\s+|$) )/x

Public Class methods

take a block of text and use various heuristics to determine it‘s structure (paragraphs, lists, and so on). Invoke an event handler as we identify significant chunks.

[Source]

     # File markup/simple_markup.rb, line 207
207:     def initialize
208:       @am = AttributeManager.new
209:       @output = nil
210:     end

Public Instance methods

Add to the sequences recognized as general markup

[Source]

     # File markup/simple_markup.rb, line 225
225:     def add_html(tag, name)
226:       @am.add_html(tag, name)
227:     end

Add to other inline sequences. For example, we could add WikiWords using something like:

   parser.add_special(/\b([A-Z][a-z]+[A-Z]\w+)/, :WIKIWORD)

Each wiki word will be presented to the output formatter via the accept_special method

[Source]

     # File markup/simple_markup.rb, line 239
239:     def add_special(pattern, name)
240:       @am.add_special(pattern, name)
241:     end

Add to the sequences used to add formatting to an individual word (such as bold). Matching entries will generate attibutes that the output formatters can recognize by their name

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     # File markup/simple_markup.rb, line 217
217:     def add_word_pair(start, stop, name)
218:       @am.add_word_pair(start, stop, name)
219:     end

for debugging, we allow access to our line contents as text

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     # File markup/simple_markup.rb, line 464
464:     def content
465:       @lines.as_text
466:     end

We take a string, split it into lines, work out the type of each line, and from there deduce groups of lines (for example all lines in a paragraph). We then invoke the output formatter using a Visitor to display the result

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     # File markup/simple_markup.rb, line 249
249:     def convert(str, op)
250:       @lines = Lines.new(str.split(/\r?\n/).collect { |aLine| 
251:                            Line.new(aLine) })
252:       return "" if @lines.empty?
253:       @lines.normalize
254:       assign_types_to_lines
255:       group = group_lines
256:       # call the output formatter to handle the result
257:       #      group.to_a.each {|i| p i}
258:       group.accept(@am, op)
259:     end

for debugging, return the list of line types

[Source]

     # File markup/simple_markup.rb, line 470
470:     def get_line_types
471:       @lines.line_types
472:     end

[Validate]