Hello Oleg,
Thank you for your recommendations too. I actually just came back from
the local library where I picked up "The Scheme Programming Language".
You know, reading through your reply, it was the last part that made me think about something.
If I can convert my input to the format:
(bold "text")
(indent 5 "text")
(bold (smallcap (size 2 "text")))
Could I not define each of these as functions (or procedures), and then just call an (eval ' ) procedure to do my output?
For example (keeping in mind I'm only just getting familiar with Scheme syntax!):
(define (bold (text)
(print the opening tag for the command 'bold')
(print the string 'text')
(print the closing tag for the command 'bold'))
(define (indent (indent-value text)
(print the opening tag for the command 'indent' with value of 'indent-value')
(print the string 'text')
(print the closing tag for the command 'indent'))
Actually due to the possible presence of nested commands, it should
probably be something more generic, since in the last example:
(bold (smallcap (size 2 "text")))
what the procedure 'bold' would be taking in is not a string "text", but
rather an _expression_...so this is where I guess things would need to be
recursive.
Once my document has been converted into one big "s-_expression_", and
procedures defined accordingly, then I could just (eval ) it..couldn't
I?
(eval '(bold "text")
(indent 5 "text")
(bold (smallcap (size 2 "text"))))
Or something along those lines?