APT
APT (Almost Plain Text) is a simple markup language than can be used to write simple article-like documents that can be converted other formats (HTML, XML, LaTeX). APT uses paragraph indentation and a few tags to specify the structure of the document.
Aptconvert
Aptconvert is a command-line tool that can be used to convert the APT format to
HTML, XHTML, PDF, PostScript, (MS Word loadable) RTF, DocBook SGML and DocBook XML.
Examples:
aptconvert userguide.html intro.txt format.txt install.txt using.txt aptconvert -pi latex documentclass [11pt]report useguide.tex userguide.txt aptconvert -pi docbook useguide.xml userguide.txt
The APT format at a glance
------
Title is Indented between at least three Dashes
------
Author is similar to Title
------
Date
Paragraph 1, line 1.
Paragraph 1, line 2.
Paragraph 2, line 1.
Paragraph 2, line 2.
Section title
* Sub-section title
** Sub-sub-section title
*** Sub-sub-sub-section title
**** Sub-sub-sub-sub-section title
* List item 1.
* List item 2.
Paragraph contained in list item 2.
* Sub-list item 1.
* Sub-list item 2.
* List item 3.
Force end of list:
[]
+------------------------------------------+
Verbatim text not contained in list item 3
+------------------------------------------+
[[1]] Numbered item 1.
[[A]] Numbered item A.
[[B]] Numbered item B.
[[2]] Numbered item 2.
List numbering schemes: [[1]], [[a]], [[A]], [[i]], [[I]].
[Defined term 1] of definition list.
[Defined term 2] of definition list.
+-------------------------------+
Verbatim text
in a box
+-------------------------------+
-------------------------------
Verbatim text without box
-------------------------------
[Figure name] Figure caption
*----------*--------------+----------------:
| Centered | Left-aligned | Right-aligned |
| cell 1,1 | cell 1,2 | cell 1,3 |
*----------*--------------+----------------:
| cell 2,1 | cell 2,2 | cell 2,3 |
*----------*--------------+----------------:
Table caption
No grid, no caption:
*-----*------*
cell | cell
*-----*------*
cell | cell
*-----*------*
Horizontal line:
=======================================================================
^L
New page (Ctrl-L).
<Italic> font. <<Bold>> font. <<<Monospaced>>> font.
{Anchor}. Link to {{anchor}}. Link to {{http://www.pixware.fr}}.
Link to {{{anchor}showing alternate text}}.
Link to {{{http://www.pixware.fr}Pixware home page}}.
Force line\
break.
Non\ breaking\ space.
Escaped special characters: \~, \=, \-, \+, \*, \[, \], \<, \>, \{, \}, \\.
Copyright symbol: \251, \xA9, \u00a9.
~~Commented out.
References
Last modified: 2005-03-01 V.M.