aslrousta / mex

A TeX-inspired Macro Processor

MeX

MeX (stands for Macro eXpander) is a macro processing tool highly inspired by TeX originally written by Donald E. Knuth.

What IT IS:

• To put it simply, a text transformation tool, somewhat like M4 and T4, but with a syntax very similar to TeX.
• A fast macro processing tool with a minimal memory footprint.
• A work in progress, far from complete.

What IT'S NOT:

• A replacement for TeX or any other digital typesetting system; nor it's meant to be.
• A production-ready solution.

TODO

• Collapse consequent whitespaces.
• Skip line comments (starting with #).
• Clear shipped tokens from the input buffer.
• Use hash-table to speed up token look-up.
• Handle errors and buffer overruns.

License

MeX is published under GPL-3.0; see LICENSE for more details.