2000 August: Not Pre-History Anymore

The author once again:

"A year passed and at that time I was really in love with SED. The txt2sgml.sh shell script was rewritten and became a 350 lines pure SED script. Some exciting features were added such as subsections, URL recognition and sublists. I have used and improved this script a lot, for almost a year."

A txt2sgml.sed sample file:

* Hey, here are the first 3 magic lines
* The document title / author / date
* But they required those asterisks at the beginning

MAIN TITLE

Titles were made by uppercase-only lines. Subtitles were identified by
leading spaces. Each space denoted a new sublevel. The beautifiers:
*bold*, **strong**, "italic" and `typewriter`.

- lists
  + sublists
    = and subsublists (by identifier, not indentation)


Two blank lines to close lists. Links as www.example.com and e-mails
were recognized automagically by regular expressions. And there was a
strange image mark:
%%image: path/to/image.jpg