Tools

Some computer programs I have written. Since I actually use them, I guess they count as structured procrastination.

• pandoc

  a general markup converter, written in Haskell. Converts from markdown, HTML, LaTeX, or reStructuredText to markdown, HTML, LaTeX, ConTeXt, reStructuredText, DocBook XML, RTF, groff man pages, or S5 slide shows. I use this for all of my lecture notes, letters, and websites.

• highlighting-kate

  a source code syntax highlighting library in Haskell. Parsers for different languages are automatically generated from Kate xml syntax definitions.

• gitit

  a wiki program in Haskell, using HAppS for server and session management, git for file storage and history, and pandoc and highlighting-kate for markup and page rendering. (gitit’s git repository, gitit live demo)

• filestore

  a generic interface to versioned storage for text or binary data, with backends for git and darcs.

• cloudlib

  tools for keeping a library of books and articles on Amazon’s S3 and SimpleDB

• peg-markdown

  an implementation of markdown in C, using a PEG (parsing expression grammar). See also markdown-peg, a PEG-based markdown in Haskell.

• sep-offprint

  produces PDF offprints from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries.

• zip-archive

  a Haskell library for working with ZIP archives.

• html2x

  web application using pandoc to convert web pages to any of eight different formats (markdown, reStructuredText, LaTeX, DocBook, etc.).

• GOGAR (game of giving and asking for reasons)

  a computer model of the scorekeeping dynamics in Robert Brandom’s Making It Explicit

• Truth table tutor

  an online truth table tutor, written in Haskell and Javascript.

• Navajo Lucida Sans font

  a TrueType font for the Navajo language