Neale Pickett
Neale Pickett
If you've ever wished your text preprocessor could do symbolic derivation, eguile is the tool for you!
eguile is a preprocessor which lets you include Scheme code in your source files--any source files, not just HTML. With the bundled ntp-style.scm, you can give web pages a consistent interface with easy navigation bars, just like this page. Further functionality is limited only by your imagination and programming ability.
eguile looks like PHP, but with Scheme instead of Perl. If you're the sort of person that would enjoy something like this, you probably don't need any further description.
eguile.scm contains the meat. If you're going to build web sites with it you may be interested in the stml package which I used at one time to generate my pages. (I use escm now.)
Easy squeezy:
For example:
<?scm (define (square x) (* x x)) ?>
2 squared is <?scm:d (square 2) ?>
renders as:
2 squared is 4
I modeled eguile after ht2html by Barry Warsaw (a far cooler cat than I). ht2html is a slick package, but it didn't feel enough like programming to me and seemed more complicated than it needed to be. escm seemed like a better solution, but felt a little too kludgy, and I needed to learn Scheme better anyway. So I stole the layout from ht2html and the syntax from escm.
eguile is distributed under the GNU Public License version 2.0 or later. Please refer to the file COPYING for more information.
I don't honestly expect anyone to use eguile, so I'm not going to put much into it beyond this page and what improvements I personally need. If you do end up using it, please let me know! I'd be more than happy to help you through any rough spots, and to consider any suggestions. If nothing else, I can link to your pages as another example of eguile in use :)