Nyctergatis

Nyctergatis Markup Engine (NME) is an experimental 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 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
• placeholders (plugins)

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 (placeholders)
• 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
• support for automatic conversion of text patterns, such as CamelCase words or URL to links, smileys to images, etc.
• 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: 18 April 2007