Simple Inline Markup Language and Logging (saimll)

SAIML

This allows the user to customize strings and prettyprint different information to stdout.

Includes:

• parse -> returns formatted strings
• print -> parse SAIML markup strings and display them to stdout

Syntax: Brackets [] indicate a macro. Macros can do 1 of three things; Assign a foreground/background color, create a hyperlink, and call a builtin function. All macros will ignore extra whitespace and focus on the identifiers; @, ~, and ^.

1. Colors

   • Colors start with a leading identifier @. To indicate foreground or background use the specifier F and B respectively. Following the @ and the specifier you can then enter the color.
     • This can be a predifined color such as; black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white. [@F black].
     • It can be a hex code #ead1a8. [@F #ead1a8].
     • It can be a XTerm code 0-256. [@F 9].
     • Lastely, it can be an rgb color where the 3 numbers can be seperated by a , or a ;. [@F 114;12,212].
   • Colors can be reset with [@F] or [@B] to reset foreground or background respectively or [@] can be use to reset both.
   • Foreground and background can be specified in the same macro [@F 1 @B 2], but they can not be reset in the same macro [@F @B], use [@]` instead.
   • While the macro will ignore white space and you can do something like [@F#ead1a8@B3] it is preferred to use whitespace for readability [@F #ead1a8 @B 3].

2. Hyperlinks

   • Hyperlinks start with a leading identifier ~.
   • Hyperlinks will surround plain text blocks. [~https://example.com]Example -> Example.
     • Links end on the next macro with the simpl ~ or at the end of the string
       • [~https://example.com]Example[~] Not part of the link → ``Example Not part of the link
       • [~https://example.com]Link1 [~https://example.com]Link2 → Link1 link2``

3. Builtin functions

   • Builtin functions start with the identifier ^. The text block following the function will have it's string value passed as a parameter.
   • You can also specify your own function or override the provided ones by calling SAIML.define("Macro Name", Callable)
   • The custom function needs to take a string and return a string. If it does not return a string it will not have an affect.
     • Example:

       def hello_world(string: str) → str:
           return "Hello World"
       
       SAIML.define("hw", hello_world)
       SAIML.print("[^hw]Cat goes moo")
       

     • The above example lets SAIML know about the function hello_world and says it can be called with hw
     • Then all that needs to happen is to call it with [^hw]
   • Example:
     • [^rainbow]Rainbow Text will return the string with a rainbow foreground color. SAIML also follows some inspiration from markdown where * means toggle bold and _ means to toggle underline. To reset all attributes, color and formatting, use the empty brackets [].

Check out this example for how SAIML can be used