Scroll - Text markup language

Scroll is an open source text markup language created in 2019 by Breck Yunits.

#370on PLDB

5Years Old

Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/breck7/scroll

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Scroll is a language for scientists of all ages. Scroll has an unusually simple syntax, an extensive set of features needed by researchers, bloggers, knowledge bases and sites of all sizes, is highly expandable, and is familiar to anyone who knows Markdown.

Tags: text markup language, static site generator, command line application, dataNotation, dataValidationLanguage, wikiMarkup
Scroll is developed on GitHub and has 414 stars
Early development of Scroll happened in Breck's Lab
Markdown and Lisp and JavaScript and HAML and HTML and Python and TSV and CSV and YAML and Jekyll and WordPress and Tex and Mathematica and dplyr and ANTLR and ReactJS influenced the design of Scroll
Scroll compiles to HTML or CSV or TSV or JSON or RSS or Plain text
Scroll is written in Parsers, Particles, JavaScript, YAML, CSS, JSON
There are 0 members in the Scroll subreddit
scroll.pub was registered in 2021
See also: (3 related languages) Markdown, Particles, Parsers
3 PLDB concepts link to Scroll: Org Mode, Podlite, Quaint

Example from the web:

title This is Scroll. The keyword for title is title.

* Scroll is an extensible alternative to Markdown.

You extend it by writing parsers.

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example
Multiline Strings	✓	plainText This is a multiline string
MultiLine Comments	✓	// A multiline comment
Line Comments	✓	// A comment
Semantic Indentation	✓	* A link to PLDB https://pldb.io
File Imports	✓	import settings.scroll
Ternary operators	X