textproc/aft 5.098_1,1 DragonFly

Document preparation system using an Almost Free Text input format

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: CART
Categories: textproc
Package size: 63.8 KiB, 291.7 KiB installed

Description

AFT (Almost Free Text) is a document preparation system. It is mostly free form meaning that there is little intrusive markup. AFT source documents look a lot like plain old ASCII text.

AFT has a few rules for structuring your document and these rules have more to do with formatting your text rather than embedding commands.

Right now, AFT produces pretty good (weblint-able) HTML, XHTML, LaTeX, lout and RTF. It can, in fact, be coerced into producing all types of output (e.g. roll-your-own XML). All that needs to be done is to edit a rule file. You can even customize your own HTML rule files for specialized output.

Install

Binary package:

pkg install aft

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/textproc/aft && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 1

lang/perl5.36

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

The aft port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing

===>   NOTICE:

This port is deprecated; you may wish to reconsider installing it:

Obscure markup language and unmaintained in tree for years.

It is scheduled to be removed on or after 2025-04-30.