1999 June: Still Pre-History

The author wants to speak some more:

"Some months passed, and a big Sgml hype arrived at the company I was working (Conectiva). So the txt2html turned into a txt2sgml script. I was really trying to learn about SED* at that moment so txt2sgml was a 110 lines Bourne Shell script with lots of SED code."

Note: SED is the UNIX Stream EDitor, an automatic text editing tool.

This improved Sgml version has more supported structures as lists and verbatim text. On the following sample file, you can see the txt2tags marks origins:

* This was a bold line (BOLD line oriented? Well...)

  --
- bullet list was very similar to txt2tags list
- but with these -- to begin and close a list
  --

=----------------------
Verbatim text was delimited by the =-- pattern.
The other ------- were just cosmetic.
=----------------------

Still not impressive, but the big step is coming...