Add support for left, center, right and justified alignment, ignore tags in comments

README.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ For a syntax- and feature-overview, have a look at [Quick Reference](#quick-refe
 
 # Markup
 
-Version 1
+Version 2
 
 > [!NOTE]  
 > See `example.mint` for a working usage example.
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ Tags toggle a style, so you can start bold text with `/b/` and end it with `/b/`
 | `/u/.../u/` | `<u>...</u>`     | <u>Underlined text</u> |
 | `/d/.../d/` | `<s>...</s>`     | ~~Deleted text~~       |
 | `/e/.../e/` | `<pre>...</pre>` | Keep whitespaces (spaces, new lines, ...) |
+| `/</...` | `<section style='text-align: left'>...` | Switch to left text-alignment |
+| `/\|/...` | `<section style='text-align: center'>...` | Switch to center text-alignment |
+| `/>/...` | `<section style='text-align: right'>...` | Switch to right text-alignment |
+| `/=/...` | `<section style='text-align: justify'>...` | Switch to justified text-alignment |
 | `/l/`       | `<br>`           | Line-break (new line)  |
 | `//`        | `/`              | Escape a forward slash |
 

example.mint

@@ -3,16 +3,31 @@
 
 /#/ Example comment /#/
 
+
+Per default, text is aligned left
+/|/
+but you can also center it
+/>/
+or align it to the right.
+
+/#/ put a newline: /#/
+
+/</ /l/ Remember to switch back to left-alignment
+
+/l/
+
+Text can also be aligned justified: /=/
+
 /p/
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 /p/
 
+/</
+
 /s/A Subheading/s/
 
 Mint supports /#/ inline comments and/#/ /b/bold/b/, /i/italic/i/ and /u/underlined/u/ text.
 
-/#/ put a newline: /#/  /l/
-
 You can also /d/strike-through/d/ text to indicate that it has been deleted.
 
 /u//i/Obviously/i/, you can /b/mix/b//u/ styles.
@@ -20,23 +35,32 @@ You can also /d/strike-through/d/ text to indicate that it has been deleted.
 /p/
 Show off a quote:
 
+/#/ NOTE: if you want to align a blockquote, put your alignment tag before the /q//#/
+
 /q/
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-/l//l/
-/i/- "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum", Cicero/i/
+/l/
+/|//i/"de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum", Cicero/i/
 /q/
 /p/
 
+/</
+
 /s/Another Subheading/s/
 
 Enforce a // with "////" to get //u//, //i//, etc.
 or an url like https:////example.org
 
-/e/You can also have sections where whitespaces are kept as-is.
+/e/You can also have "pre-formatted" sections where whitespaces are kept as-is.
  ... which means you can do stuff like
                                         /u/this/u/.
 /e/
 
+/=/
+
 /p/
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 /p/
+
+/>/
+bye :)

mint2html.py

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2026, Julian Müller (ChaoticByte)
 # Licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License
 
-# pylint: disable=line-too-long,missing-module-docstring,missing-class-docstring,missing-function-docstring
+# pylint: disable=line-too-long,missing-module-docstring,missing-class-docstring,missing-function-docstring,invalid-name
 
 from html import escape
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ class ConverterState:
     underline = False
     strike_through = False
     whitespace_pre = False
+    alignment = "" # left: <  center: |  right >  justify: =
 
     def complete_cycle(self):
         self.pos += self.pos_offset
@@ -82,6 +83,11 @@ class MintToHtmlConverter:
         - underline                 /u/
         - deleted (strike-through)  /d/
 
+        - align to left             /</
+        - align to center           /|/
+        - align to right            />/
+        - align justified           /=/
+
         - keep whitespaces          /e/
         - line breaks               /l/
     '''
@@ -93,8 +99,9 @@ class MintToHtmlConverter:
     ):
         self.escape_html = escape_html
         self.css = css
+        self.comment_tag = MintTagToHtml("#", None, "comment")
         self.tags = [
-            MintTagToHtml("#", None, "comment"),
+            self.comment_tag,
             MintTagToHtml("p", "p", "paragraph"),
             MintTagToHtml("q", "blockquote", "blockquote"),
             MintTagToHtml("h", "h1", "heading"),
@@ -106,14 +113,24 @@ class MintToHtmlConverter:
             MintTagToHtml("e", "pre", "whitespace_pre"),
             MintTagToHtml("l", "br", None)
         ]
+        self.alignments = {
+            "<": "left",
+            "|": "center",
+            ">": "right",
+            "=": "justify"
+        }
 
     def __call__(self, text_in: str, ) -> str:
         '''Convert mint to html'''
         # replace unwanted characters
         text_in = text_in.replace("\r", "")
         # html escape
+        text_in = text_in.replace("/</", "/lalgn/")
+        text_in = text_in.replace("/>/", "/ralgn/")
         if self.escape_html:
             text_in = escape(text_in)
+        text_in = text_in.replace("/lalgn/", "/</")
+        text_in = text_in.replace("/ralgn/", "/>/")
         # parsing & conversion
         state = ConverterState()
 
@@ -149,7 +166,7 @@ class MintToHtmlConverter:
                 break
             c1 = text_in[state.pos + 1]
             if c == TAG_BOUNDARY:
-                if c1 == TAG_BOUNDARY:
+                if c1 == TAG_BOUNDARY and not state.comment:
                     # e.g. // -> /
                     state.pos_offset += 1
                     state.add_output(TAG_BOUNDARY)
@@ -158,14 +175,27 @@ class MintToHtmlConverter:
                 if state.pos + 2 < len_text_in:
                     c2 = text_in[state.pos + 2]
                     if c2 == TAG_BOUNDARY:
-                        # process tags
-                        for t in self.tags:
-                            process_inline_tag(c1, state, t)
+                        if state.comment:
+                            process_inline_tag(c1, state, self.comment_tag)
+                        else:
+                            for t in self.tags:
+                                process_inline_tag(c1, state, t)
+                        # toggle alignment
+                        if c1 in self.alignments:
+                            state.pos_offset += 2
+                            if state.alignment == c1:
+                                pass
+                            elif state.alignment != "":
+                                state.add_output("</section>")
+                            state.add_output(f"<section style='text-align: {self.alignments[c1]}'>")
+                            state.alignment = c1
             if not state.cycle_had_op and not state.comment:
                 state.output += c
             # complete this cycle's state
             state.complete_cycle()
         # cleanup
+        if state.alignment != "":
+            state.add_output("</section>")
         state.output = state.output.strip()
         # return result
         return state.output
@@ -175,7 +205,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     from argparse import ArgumentParser
 
     argp = ArgumentParser()
-    argp.add_argument("-i", "--input-file", help="Input file (will read from stdin until eof when omitted)", type=Path, required=False)
+    argp.add_argument("-i", "--input-file", help="Input file(s) (will read from stdin until eof when omitted)", type=Path, required=False, nargs="*")
     argp.add_argument("-o", "--output-file", help="Output file (will print to stdout when omitted)", type=Path, required=False)
     argp.add_argument("--css", help="Add css to the html output", type=str, default="")
     argp.add_argument("--no-escape-html", help="Don't escape html in the input", action="store_true")
@@ -191,11 +221,14 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
         input_lines = []
         for l in stdin:
             input_lines.append(l)
-        input_text = "\n".join(input_lines) # pylint: disable=invalid-name
+        input_text = "\n".join(input_lines)
         del input_lines
     else:
-        log(f"Reading text from {str(args.input_file)} ...")
-        input_text = args.input_file.read_text()
+        log(f"Reading text from {str([str(f) for f in args.input_file])} ...")
+        inputs = []
+        for f in args.input_file:
+            inputs.append(f.read_text())
+        input_text = "\n".join(inputs)
 
     log("Converting text ...")
     output_document = MintToHtmlConverter(
@@ -206,7 +239,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     if args.minify_html:
         log("Minifying html output ...")
         import minify_html
-        output_document = minify_html.minify(output_document)
+        output_document = minify_html.minify(output_document) # pylint: disable=no-member
 
     if args.output_file is None:
         log("Writing output to stdout ...")