Message from the owner(s)
Milestone 1 has been released. It contains basic features and is intended for use by early adopters who want a stable snapshot of the project. Features include:
- basic Type 1 fonts
- bold, italics, underline, strikethrough
- foreign characters (enough for French, German, Spanish)
- left, center, right alignment and justified text
- customizable page size
- customizable margins
- indented/unindented paragraphs
- page number footer
- debugging features
Current output is to PDF only.
Milestone 2 is under active development. If you want to be notified about upcoming releases, sign up for our low-volume announcement mailing list (by sending an e-mail to
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subscribe [at]
platypus.tigris.org) and we'll let you know.
For additional documentation, examples, rationale, and project schedule, go to the project
website.
Description
Platypus is a comprehensive and easy-to-use page layout and typesetting system.
Similar in concept to tools such as TeX, Platypus adds new features, especially, ease of use to the generation of documents of all kinds. It has features of particular benefit to developers and technical writers, such as intelligent, language-sensitive support for listings and code snippets.
Input consists of text files with embedded commands and specifications (similar in concept to troff and TeX). These files are converted to PDF or HTML using the iText library.
Platypus is ideal for program documentation and other long documents. Because of its ease of use, it enables developers to quickly generate high-quality, typeset docs and HTML pages, without having to learn another language or a lengthy command set.
Platypus is available at no charge under the Apache 2.0 open-source license.
