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# AMU
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AMU is a human readable markup language I made for my own uses and to learn. It is the first lexer and parser that I have written by hand.
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### Purpose
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The purpose of this project is to create a markup language for my own use. I will use this primarily for quickly writing simple documents, for example, taking notes in class or doing some quick homework. It fulfills all my needs and I will add things as I need them. There are functions for extensibility when adding a new thing to parse is not justified.
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### Usage
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This repo is a library for parsing AMU. It can be imported and used like any other go library. In `cmd`, there are binaries for interacting with AMU. `cmd/amu` contains a command line program that takes a file with AMU or reads from stdin and outputs HTML. In `cmd/amulive`, there is a Gtk app that provides a real-time preview of the document on the right with a text box on the left.
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### Syntax
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The syntax for most of AMU's features can be seen in test.amu in this repo.
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### Performance
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Timing this program using the test file, I consistently get 4ms run time on my XPS 13. This is much faster than the projects I have made before for a similar purpose, although it is likely unnoticeable for most people. |