Soup2esc takes a HTML-like-input (a tag soup) and produces an ESC/POS-compatible output. It makes it easy to send stuff to a "receipt" printer, in other words.

Main things it does:

• Handles all the basic formatting commands
• Also handles properly the justification commands
• Supports nested tags (centered text with formatting per-word/phrase)
• Can do barcodes galore, with options (at least the stuff my printer handles)
• And, for a kicker, it can print a PNG as a raster image (with options how to!)
• Exits on earliest problems

What it doesn't do:

• Try to be smart and handle nonsense tag combinations, or going over the margin
• Or stop you from printing out /dev/random
• Being a stream processor it will happily output stuff before it dies

None for now, given nobody will use this anyway :P

But this is a part of a larger project, with the second element being the snippetd. Been using this tandem for less than a month but so far I'm getting what I wanted, duh.

Follow the usual GitHub development model:

1. Clone the repository
2. Make your changes on a separate branch
3. Make sure you run gofmt and go test before committing
4. Make a pull request

See licensing for legalese.

Standard two-clause BSD license, see LICENSE.txt for details.

Any contributions will be licensed under the same conditions.

Copyright (c) 2019 - 2024 Piotr S. Staszewski