Lexxia: A Multiformat Text Processor

Product Summary

• Lexxia is a text content processor, based on the high-performance Limpid engine. The characteristics of Lexxia have evolved over three years, partly in response to requests from users, but the underlying Limpid engine (based on the W3C DOM) has been stable for over six years.
• Lexxia is coded in C++ and is released as a statically-linked executable for Linux (about 2MB), as well as for Windows (4 MB).
• Lexxia and the underlying Limpid library are free and open-source software (FOSS).

First Steps

• Getting Started with Lexxia
• Converting an XML Document to XHTML

Subdomains

• Editing with Lexxia
• LaTeX and PDF
• The Limpid Engine of Lexxia

Quick Links to Applications

• Loading from different file formats
• Writing in different file formats
• Document transformation using XSLT
• Building XHTML documents from text and other document formats
• Stream editing of documents
• Inspection of documents for validity
• Building of DTD and Schema documents; automated building of stylesheets
• Introduction to LaTeX and PDF

Detailed Discussions

• Building an XML from (almost) Plain Text
• Interfacing OpenOffice.org and Lexxia
• Converting HTML to LaTeX and PDF
• Converting XML to LaTeX and PDF

Summaries

• Lexxia Commands
• CSS-style stylesheets for Building LaTeX

Under the Wraps

• The Limpid Engine

Downloads

• Downloads for Linux

This latest revision of Lexxia/Limpid is available for Linux in three formats: executable, zipped executable and source. Your choice! The Windows port, as ever, is running a little behind, and is slated for release in about mid-March 2009.

A Request

Much of the recent refinement of Lexxia has been in response to requests from users. I really want to know about users' experiences with it; so, for better or worse, I want to know if you have a problem -- and I want to know what you think is missing. I do appreciate responses.