Nyctergatis

Nyctergatis Markup Engine (NME) is an open-source implementation of a Creole parser written in C. More background about its objectives with respect to Creole can be found in YvesPiguet page. NME is used in the scientific software Sysquake 4 for reports and help files. It is not linked to any wiki, but you can try its sandbox. It has the following features:

Creole 1.0 features:

• bold, italic
• unordered lists and ordered lists with nesting
• headings
• links, hooks for autolinks
• paragraphs
• line breaks
• block preformatted
• horizontal rule
• tables with headings
• images, including in links
• inline nowiki (optionally rendered in monospace)
• escape character
• plugins and placeholders

Additions:

• definition lists
• indented text
• monospace, underline, superscript, subscript
• all these additions can be disabled separately

Parser features:

• C library and command-line application, C++ and Python glue
• one pass, based on a state machine
• many options: support for "blog-like paragraphs" where line breaks are paragraph separators, heading numbering, and many features (links, images, styles, etc) can be disabled independently
• support for automatic conversion of text patterns, such as CamelCase words or URL to links, smileys to images, etc.
• link translation
• the parser is as forgiving as possible, producing valid output even with unbalanced markup
• conversion to HTML, RTF, LaTeX, plain text, Creole, man page, JSPWiki, or customized
• conversion for GTK+ (cross-platform) and MFC (Windows)
• style information can be extracted separately, with byte or unicode indices
• plugins where output can be written directly with target format or translated from Creole
• open-source (new BSD license)
• last update: 25 August 2008
• the sandbox has now (3 Nov 07) an output format for slides, and a presentation of NME as an example; each level-2 heading starts a new slide, and the first slide, which contains a level-1 heading, centers text