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NAME

       templatespp - preprocessor based on templates parser

SYNOPSIS

       templatespp [-o file] file

DESCRIPTION

       templatespp  is  a  pre-processor  based  on the template parser. It is
       generally used from scripts to process files and generate other  files.
       One  of  the  possible  uses, for instance, is to write the CSS (style-
       sheet) of a web site as a template file  (for  instance  ‘mycss.tcss’),
       and  use  template  parser  structures  in there. This is a good way to
       share colors for instance, or to name constants, as is  often  done  in
       Ada code.

       Here is a small example of such a CSS:

            @@SET@@ COLOR1=blue
            @@SET@@ COLOR2=red
            @@SET@@ LENGTH1=10

            body {background:@_COLOR1_@}
            div  {background:@_COLOR2_@}
            ul.class {background:@_COLOR1_@}  /* same color as body */

            ul   {width:@_ADD(3):LENGTH1_@px} /* ul 3 pixels wider than li */
            li   {width:@_LENGTH1_@px}

       Such a file would be processed with the following command line:

            templatespp -o mycss.css mycss.tcss

OPTIONS

       -h     Display a summary of options.

       -o file
              Write the output to file.

SEE ALSO

       templates2ada(1)

       The Template Parsers User’s Guide in package libtemplates-parser-dev.

AUTHOR

       templatespp  was  written by Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> as part of
       the Ada Web Server.

       This manual page was written by Ludovic Brenta <lbrenta@debian.org> for
       Debian GNU/Linux.