Dalet

Markup language ecosystem сombining small file size, big number of possibilities for describing the interface and readability.

Specification. Rust implementation

Warning

Specification is not complete and very unstable.

Concept

This is Daleth (high level language that compiles to Daletl).

# multilines
#
# {text} - input is trimmed with indent
#
# {~n text} - n is number of minimum spaces to add after trimming with indent
# for each line
#
# {#text} - input not modified
#
#
# tag syntax
#
# tag: text body
# tag { multiline text body }
# body text always trimmed
#
# tag [ multiple tags body ]
#
# Arguments
# tag argument
#
# Tags without body and argument also supported
#
#
# custom no tag syntax
#
# {-text} - paragraph, text indent is trimmed
# [[tags]] - element tag with body of multiple tags
# text - element tag with text body

meta "title": Daleth syntax concept
meta "description": This document describes Daleth syntax and some tags

h1: TxtDot revolution
p: TxtDot is a cool project

# If no tag is specified, then the 'el' tag is placed

This is element
br

# if no tag is specified but a '{- text}' is present, then the 'p' tag is placed
# '\n' is deleted in this format. If a break line is needed in a paragraph, use '  \n'.
{-
  Check Dalet too
  This is one paragraph
}

{- This is another paragraph ({- text\}) }

row "center" [
  link "https://github.com/txtdot/txtdot": Homepage
  btn "https://example.com/donate" [
    # tag without body
    img "https://example.com/donate.png"
    Donate
  ]
]

# [] for multiple tags
row [
  # if no tag is specified but a '[[]]' is present, then the 'el' tag
  # with multiple tags body placed
  [[
    h2: Features

    ul [
      Server-side page simplification
      Media proxy
      Image compression with Sharp
      Rendering client-side apps `Vanilla, React, Vue, etc` with webder
      Search with SearXNG
      Handy API endpoints
      No client JavaScript
      Some kind of Material Design 3
      Customization with plugins, see @txtdot/sdk and @txtdot/plugins
    ]
  ]]

  [[
    h2: Running

    [[
      h3: Dev

      # {} for multiline strings, indent is automatically trimmed
      code {
        npm install
        npm run dev
      }

      # {~n Text} n is number of minimum spaces
      code "markdown" {~4
        this is codeblock
      }

      # {# Text} Text after "`# " not modified
      code "markdown" {#     this is codeblock}
    ]]

    [[
      h3: Production
      code {
        npm install
        npm run build
        npm run start
      }
    ]]

    [[
      h3: Docker
      code: docker compose up -d
    ]]

  ]]
]

# Table has custom format if text used
# +| cells | - primary column
#  | cells | - secondary column
#  | Element | Description | - converts to
#  tcol [
#    Element
#    Description
#  ]
table {
  +| Tag      | Description     |
   | h        | Heading         |
   | p        | Paragraph       |
   | img      | Image           |
   | link     | Link            |
   | btn      | Button          |
   | ul       | Unordered list  |
   | br       | Line break      |
  +| quantity | 7               |
}