Markup PoetsMarkup Poets

We write
parsers
like poems.

Markup Poets is a small open-source fellowship treating markup languages as a literary craft — beginning with an AsciiDoc parser for Kotlin Multiplatform.

Read the manifesto →View on GitHubTry the demo
I.
From the Manifesto

Markup is the quiet architecture of every document you have ever loved. It is the invisible scaffolding beneath a page of poetry, a technical specification, a letter to a friend. We hold that a parser deserves the same discipline as a stanza: exactness, cadence, the refusal of a wasted word.

We build tools for the people who write in AsciiDoc, Markdown, reStructuredText — the small languages that carry the world's serious writing. We build them slowly, in the open, and with the conviction that structure is a form of verse.

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II.
A Translation Table

Type on the left. Read on the right.

A live AsciiDoc translator, running entirely in your browser via Asciidoctor.js. Edit the source; the rendered document responds.

Source · AsciiDocloading…
Rendered · HTML*
III.
Featured Work
asciidoc-kmp

asciidoc-kmp

Kotlin · Multiplatform · Apache-2.0

A Kotlin Multiplatform implementation of the AsciiDoc language — one parser, every runtime Kotlin reaches.

The AsciiDoc grammar has, until now, lived primarily in Ruby and JavaScript. asciidoc-kmp brings a faithful, spec-tracking parser to Android, iOS, the JVM, and the browser through Kotlin/JS — from a single source tree.

// build.gradle.kts
dependencies {
    implementation("dev.markup-poets:asciidoc-kmp:0.1.0")
}

// anywhere
val doc = Asciidoc.parse(source)
println(doc.title)
Repository →Getting started
IV.
Forthcoming
  • markdown-kmp
    A CommonMark parser, patient and portable.
    Forthcoming
  • spec-reader
    Reading language specifications as literature.
    Forthcoming
  • See the full bibliography →