Project Scruf. What. This is a "just for fun" project aiming at converting plain text documents to html web pages. We are are focusing on producing fundamental and simple web-pages which are clean, yet simple, we will be using CSS to ease down on the design and the format of the web-pages that are produced by the program. The plain text document will contain mark-ups that are to frilled by the user for the program to identify different elements of the document. For instance, a

heading should be surrounded by the '==', as it is evident, the number of equals sign (=) is equal to the heading number, a

heading should be surrounded '===='. An illustration. a marked-up plain text document. == heading two == this is paragraph *one*. this is paragraph _three_. Do you know how to /count/ ?. the html-converted plain text document.

this is paragraph one.

this is paragraph three

Do you know how to count Why. So why should we write a html conversion program from the scratch when we have awesome suites like WordPress and the like. Why re-invent the wheel ?. Here are few reasons by we desire to write from scratch : * If we have to adapt or modify an already existing converter, we need to bunch of source files before we can even start thinking about how to adapt it. It takes a lot of time to adapt specifically to our needs. * This project aims to project a very very simple, clean and small blogging program which can cater to the user without the need MySQL, PHP or other complex programs. * We didn't start this project without a purpose, siddharth wishes to exploit the html converter to host his verbal rambles on his web site. How. How are we going to crunch this project ?. What follows gives some details about the project. Platform The program will be compatible on GNU/Linux machines. We don't have plans to have support for Windows/ Mac OSX machines. Programming Language. The suite will be written in the (filthy) Java programming language. OpenJDK 6.0 will be used for compiling the programs. Cascading Style Sheets. The project will also write simple and clean stylesheets for properly formatting and frilling the html documents that are produced by the programs. Documentation. A minimalistic documentation to learn the mark-ups will be made available for the user to start writing marked-up plain text documents ready for html conversion. Who Who is behind this project anyway ?. * Sury Narayanan : He will responsible for writing stylesheet to decorate the html docs. * Saravana Bharathy : He will writing the documentation for the mark-ups for the plain text document. * Siddharth : He will be writing code for the project and he will be the first user of the html converter. Licensing. All programs written under the project scruf will be licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later.