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programming. It supports a two-stage process, consisting of macro
interpretation (featuring inside-out evaluation if needed), followed
by a simple and powerful application of stream character filtering.
Its syntax is remindful of \it{TeX}'s, it has dictionary stacks like
\it{PostScript}, and various resemblances to \it{m4} and \it{info}.
It has interfaces to modules making life easy \- counters, references,
arithmetic, multi-dimensional data storage, input/output operations,
regular expressions, and system commands.
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Zoem is an interpretive macro language with substantial facilities for
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programming. It supports a two-stage process, consisting of macro
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interpretation (featuring inside-out evaluation if needed), followed
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by a simple and powerful application of stream character filtering.
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Its syntax is remindful of \it{TeX}'s, it has dictionary stacks like
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\it{PostScript}, and various resemblances to \it{m4} and \it{info}.
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It has interfaces to modules making life easy \- counters, references,
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arithmetic, multi-dimensional data storage, input/output operations,
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regular expressions, and system commands.
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Zoem is used for creating extendible dummy mark-up languages and
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mapping those to real mark-up languages. The dummy languages have all
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the power of the zoem primitives available to them. A prime
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application is the creation of little mark-up languages that allow
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easy preparation of documents for use with different devices.
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Examples are the PUD \bf{faq} language and the PUD \bf{man} language,
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both of which can be used to generate troff output and html
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output. PUD stands for Portable Unix Documentation and is shipped with
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Aephea. Aephea itself is an abstraction layer for creating concise
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and maintainable HTML documents.
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