New library: Easy-format 0.9.0

New library: Easy-format 0.9.0

[Martin Jambon]

Hi list,

I would like to announce a small library (a module in fact) that is meant 
to make it easy to produce pretty-printed text:

   http://martin.jambon.free.fr/easy-format.html

The data to be printed goes through a tree that carries all the 
information required for pretty-printing. After that, a single call to 
Easy_format.Pretty.to_stdout (for instance) outputs the indented result.

There's a reasonably complete example at

   http://martin.jambon.free.fr/easy_format_example.html


Comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome.
Enjoy.


Martin

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Easy-format 1.0.0 (Re: [Caml-list] New library: Easy-format 0.9.0)

[Martin Jambon]

I've just released a richer version of Easy-format.
The main URL is still http://martin.jambon.free.fr/easy-format.html

It now offers the following additional features:

- Support for separators that stick to the next list item (e.g. "|")
- More wrapping options
- Added Custom kind of nodes for using Format directly or existing
   pretty-printers
- Support for markup and escaping, allowing to produce colorized output
   (HTML, terminal, ...) without interfering with the computation of
   line breaks and spacing.

Easy-format now takes advantage of most features of the Format module, 
with the notable exception of tabulation boxes. I'd be curious so see any 
interesting use of tabulation boxes.


This release has slight incompatibilities with version 0.9.0 which was 
released earlier this week, simply because more options were added:

- Deprecated use of Easy_format.Param. Instead, inherit from
   Easy_format.list,
   Easy_format.label or Easy_format.atom.
- Atom nodes have now one additional argument for parameters.
- All record types have been extended with more fields.
   Using the "with" mechanism for inheritance is the best way of limiting
   future incompatibilities.


Martin

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