DragonCreole began life as a custom spinoff of the Creole markup, optimized for speed and HTML5 compliance. Written in Python, it was originally a component of the bliki engine I use for running the site of my old web comic. It has some additional features that make it different from the official Creole 1.0 specification:
- Uses the sub-script, super-script, underlined text, and definition list additions
- Strike-through text is supported
- Lettered lists and Roman Numeral lists are supported, as an alternative to numbered lists.
- Bullet, Numbered, Lettered, and Roman Numeral lists can all be embedded within one another.
- Cells in tables can span across multiple columns
- Automatic paragraphs can optionally be disabled
- Macros are explicitly supported, using the recommended markup. Some built-in macros are also included.
Currently, documentation is not yet ready and it is not yet available on PyPI, but getting started with DragonCreole is simple enough:
from dragoncreole import DragonCreole
parser = DragonCreole()
print( parser.render("**Hello World!**") )Alternatively, you can run dragoncreole.py directly and then open http://localhost:5000 in your browser to see a basic demo page.
You can find examples of the markup in the file test.txt, and test.html contains the rendered output.