Open Source Python Text Editors

Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout to Linux, BSD UNIX, Solaris, OpenIndiana, GNU/Hurd, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4, eComStation, and Windows desktops with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and spot colors, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation.

Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond

MediaWiki To LaTeX converts MediaWiki markup to LaTeX and generates a PDF. So it provides an export from MediaWiki to LaTeX. It works with any project running MediaWiki, especially Wikipedia and Wikibooks.

pyfiglet is a full port of the FIGlet specification (http://www.figlet.org/) into pure python. It takes ASCII text and renders it in ASCII art fonts. It can be used on the commandline or as an Object Oriented driver library in your own programs.

A framework for creating freeware Truetype fonts based on Metafont language. Glyph outlines and bitmaps are converted, using a number of utilities, into TTF and BDF format.

TeXML is an XML vocabulary for TeX. The processor transforms the TeXML markup into the TeX markup, escaping special and out-of-encoding characters. The intended audience is developers who automatically generate [La]TeX or ConTeXt files.

This project aims to develop means for advanced Arabic typesetting, including OpenType fonts and a text layout engine.

Legba will be a set of tools designed to publish one content file (in XML) on many media such as websites, CD-Rom or paper.

OpenReport is a fast, flexible and complete open source solution for rendering professionnal documents. It is a set of two embedded or standalone components; Tiny RML2PDF (a better alternative to XSL:FO) and the open report server.

Projek Munsyi is a project to provide localization (L10N) for the Bahasa Melayu (Malay language) (ms) especially for the GNU software. The goal of this project is to become the hub for the Malay language team at Translation Project.

The Song Press is a song typeset program. Its input consists of a song in the popular ChordPro format; The Song Press displays it on the screen and allows the user to copy and paste the song into any Windows application, in the Windows Metafile format.

A highly customizable plain text renderer for reStructuredText and other document formats. This functionality is needed for Braille printing in particular.

ZML, the Zeitung Markup Language, is a simple CMS for small newspapers. It was specifically designed to publish a student newspaper in print and on the Web. It uses LaTeX and XHTML. So far, it is documented in German only.

This module contains only a single new-style class, that is called textgrid. It's a string-based solution that allows you to present data converted to strings in ASCII-Style tables. Actually, the class doesn't support different dimensions for each row and column. Textgrid is an ASCII-Style table, easyly writable to a text file. It supports various operations, like writing in its cells, adding or deleting rows and columns, changing the measures of cells, and more. Textgrids allow to simply import/export text in tables that can be viewed with a simple txt reader, and also to store text in an object that can be easily printed whenever you want in your python application.

Teng is a general purpose templating engine written in C++ (i.e. library). It is also available as Python module or PHP extension. The main idea of teng is to strictly separate application logic from presentation layer. Widely used on dynamic web sites.