Nyctergatis

Nyctergatis Markup Engine (NME) is an experimental implementation of a Creole parser written in C. It is not linked to any wiki, but you can try its sandbox. It has the following features:

Creole 0.5 features:

• bold, italic, bold italic
• unordered lists and ordered lists with nesting up to 8 levels
• headings level 1-4
• links (without images)
• paragraphs
• line breaks
• preformatted
• horizontal rule
• tables with headings
• images

Creole 0.5 feature not supported:

• placeholder

Differences (on purpose):

• in preformatted text, space+}}} is rendered as is, with space
• inline {{{...}}} is rendered in normal font (see Proportional Font Nowiki Proposal, and ## below)

Other markup:

• definition lists with ; and :
• indented text with :
• Multiline list items and indented text
• monospace text with ##
• underlined text with __
• superscript and subscript style (see SuperscriptAndSubscriptProposal)
• plugins (see MultilinePlaceholderProposal)
• escape character (tilde; see Talk.EscapeCharacterProposal)

Parser features:

• C library and command-line application
• one pass, based on a state machine
• many options: support for "blog-like paragraphs" where line breaks are paragraph separators, and many features (links, images, styles, etc) can be disabled independently
• conversion to HTML, RTF, LaTeX, plain text, Creole, man page, JSPWiki, or customized
• the parser is as forgiving as possible, producing valid output even with unbalanced markup
• plugins where output can be written directly with target format or translated from Creole
• open-source (new BSD license)
• last update: 30 March 2007