Type-z handcrafted software

Welcome to the software made at type-z. This page lets you access the latest version of projects we made public.

Here are the available software

• SimTex, a text markup processor which outputs XML. It is similar to what you find in most wikis: a markup that emulates HTML tags. The main differences are that SimTex markup will certainly feel more natural and flexible than most of the other markups, and natively outputs XML documents which conform to the OrchidéeNoire DTD. (Download SimTex v.0.5.5).
• OrchidéeNoire is both a DTD and an XML document processing pipeline that aims at providing a clean and simple alternative to DocBook. DocBook is quite big and DocBook XML documents tend to require some time to be processed. OrchidéeNoire offers a clean, simple, yet rather complete DTD that is backed up by a set of XSL-based processing tools that allow to output HTML, PostScript and PDF documents. (Download OrchideeNoire v.0.6.1).

All these software are rather easy to install: simply unpack the tarball then type make install or make install prefix=/my/prefix if you want to install everything outside of /usr/local.

The software you will find here are written in the wonderful Python language, which we found very appropriate for writing small to medium programs such as those presented here. So far, we did not found a languages that are both that flexible, compact and fast.

We are dedicated to the open source movement, so all our projects are licensed under the BSD License.

All the software you will find here share the same approach: be simple, reasonably fast, extensible and maintainable. The approaches developed in these projects are unique, and you are encouraged to look at similar open source projects to compare features, ease of use and of course, code.