NAME

       templatespp - preprocessor based on templates parser

SYNOPSIS

       templatespp [-o file] file

DESCRIPTION

       templatespp is a pre-processor based on the template parser. It is generally used from scripts to process
       files and generate other  files.   One  of  the  possible  uses,  for  instance,  is  to  write  the  CSS
       (style-sheet)  of  a  web  site  as  a template file (for instance `mycss.tcss'), and use template parser
       structures in there. This is a good way to share colors for instance, or to name constants, as  is  often
       done in Ada code.

       Here is a small example of such a CSS:

            @@SET@@ COLOR1=blue
            @@SET@@ COLOR2=red
            @@SET@@ LENGTH1=10

            body {background:@_COLOR1_@}
            div  {background:@_COLOR2_@}
            ul.class {background:@_COLOR1_@}  /* same color as body */

            ul   {width:@_ADD(3):LENGTH1_@px} /* ul 3 pixels wider than li */
            li   {width:@_LENGTH1_@px}

       Such a file would be processed with the following command line:

            templatespp -o mycss.css mycss.tcss

OPTIONS

       -h     Display a summary of options.

       -o file
              Write the output to file.

SEE ALSO

       templates2ada(1)

       The Template Parsers User's Guide in package libtemplates-parser-dev.

AUTHOR

       templatespp was written by Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> as part of the Ada Web Server.

       This manual page was written by Ludovic Brenta <lbrenta@debian.org> for Debian GNU/Linux.