📜 Touch

Go Reference | Playground | MIT License

Touch is a lightweight markup language. It uses puncutation characters to inscribe meaning to otherwise plain text. The grammar is simple to parse, allowing for easy tooling.

Touch in a few bullet points:

familiar syntax—follows existing conventions
easily extensible via JSON for teams that need extra elements (removes the need for inline HTML or other flavors of the language)
default config includes only common elements (including comments!) which should satisfy 80% of use cases
comes with auto-formatting (think prettier or gofmt)

Quick Start

Online playground: http://touchlabs.io/play

Locally

Install the latest binary from Releases or run go get github.com/touchmarine/to if you have Go installed.
Run to version to verify it's working.
Run to build html < file.to > file.html to convert Touch to HTML. Use to help for details.

Auto-Formatting

to fmt < file.to 1<> file.to                # 1<> to write to same file we read from
to fmt -linelength 80 < file.to 1<> file.to # hard-wrap at 80 columns

Elements

See the default config for reference of all elements that come with Touch by default.

Block Elements

This is a quick reference of some common block elements:

/ this is a block comment

= Title
_ Subtitle

== h2
=== h3

/ numbered headings (prefixed with 1 and 1.1)
## h2
### h3

> blockquote
* note
- list
1. numbered list

/ code block
`js
function num() {
	return 1
}
`

/ preformatted block
'
      ___________________________
    < I'm an expert in my field. >
      ---------------------------
          \   ^__^
           \  (oo)\_______
              (__)\       )\/\
                  ||----w |
                  ||     ||
'
/ art from https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/pre#example

Inline Elements

This is a quick reference of some common inline elements:

// an inline comment //
__emphasis__ // italics //
**strong**   // bold //
``code``
((link))
[[link text]]((link URL))

a \ // line break //
b

/ autolinks
www.example.test
http://example.test
https://example.test

Learn More

Checkout the TOUR.

Get in Touch

Ha, get it? In Touch? Anyway, you can reach me at scout at touchlabs.io. I would love to hear your thoughts.

touchmarine/to