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Meld is a GNOME visual diff and merge tool. It integrates especially well with CVS. The diff viewer lets you edit files in place (diffs update dynamically), and a middle column shows detailed changes and allows merges. The margins show location of changes for easy navigation, and it also features a tabbed interface that allows you to open many diffs at once.

GasTeX is a set of LaTeX macros which allow to draw very easily graphs, automata, nets, diagrams, etc... under the picture environment of LaTeX. A picture with gastex basically consists of nodes and edges. Here are a few examples of pictures that are easily defined with gastex.

libcroco is a standalone css2 parsing library. It provides a low level event driven SAC like api and a css object model like api. This library is being written to bring the css support to the mlview xml editor project but it can be used for other applications as well.

This class loader implements phrasebook patterns using YAML. Phrases can be contained within one or more dictionaries, with each phrase accessible via a unique key. Phrases may contain placeholders, please see Data::Phrasebook for an explanation of how to use these. Groups of phrases are kept in a dictionary. In this implementation a single file is one complete dictionary.

Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). Thus, "Markdown" is two things: a plain text markup syntax, and a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text markup to HTML.

Aspell is a spelling checker designed to eventually replace ispell, although it currently lacks many of ispell's basic functions. Aspell's main feature is that it does a much better job of coming up with possible suggestions than ispell. Aspell also includes a powerful C++ library with C and Perl interfaces in the works.

MetaUML is a GNU GPL MetaPost library for typesetting UML diagrams, using a human-friendly textual notation. Here's what you can do with MetaUML (also see the FAQ): * Create UML diagrams readily usable in a LaTeX article or book. * Create independent PDF-s * Create jpeg-s, png-s etc.

SDF is a freely available documentation system designed and developed by Ian Clatworthy, with help from many others. Based on a simple, readable markup language, SDF generates high quality output in multiple formats, all derived from a single document source. Supported output formats include HTML, PostScript, PDF, man pages, POD, LaTeX, SGML, MIMS HTX and F6 help, MIF, RTF, Windows help and plain text.

This is a simple module which makes an unscientific effort at summarizing English text. It recognizes simple patterns which look like statements, abridges them, and concatenates them into something vaguely resembling a summary. It needs more work on large bodies of text, but it seems to have a decent effect on small inputs at the moment. Seamus Venasse <svenasse@polaris.ca>

FOP is the world's first print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object tree conforming to the XSL candidate release (21. November 2000) and then turns it into a PDF document or allows you to preview it directly on screen. FOP is part of Apache's XML project. The homepage of FOP is