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ack 32aa47d41c Windows is installed through WSL; the native Windows build is withdrawn (from dev a9756dac74c6)
Klammertext on Windows is the Linux build inside WSL 2, or the prebuilt
containers through Docker Desktop. The native build from source (MSYS2) is
no longer offered:

- doc/install/windows_source_install.md and the bundled shell under win/
  are removed.
- doc/install/windows_wsl_install.md is the Windows page. It says there is
  no native build, and its editor section says what holds for each editor:
  Emacs, Vim and Visual Studio Code (through its WSL extension) as on
  Linux; Sublime Text and Notepad++ on the Windows side, with their
  self-contained packages, on files opened through \\wsl.localhost.
- The README lists six install guides; the Notepad++ and VS Code READMEs
  no longer refer to the MSYS2 shell.

No change to the language, the Standard Klammer Set or the commands.
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# Klammertext
Klammertext is a markup language that produces multiple output formats —
HTML, LaTeX/PDF, and plain text — from a single source description. Its core
engine, the Klammermachine, is written in C++; the Standard Klammer Set (SKS)
adds a default library of formatting and document-structuring operators on top.
## Installing
Installation guides are in [`doc/install/`](doc/install/):
- Linux, from source — `doc/install/linux_source_install.md`
- macOS, from source — `doc/install/macos_source_install.md`
- Windows, Linux inside WSL — `doc/install/windows_wsl_install.md`
- Linux, container — `doc/install/linux_container_install.md`
- macOS, container — `doc/install/macos_container_install.md`
- Raspberry Pi, from source — `doc/install/raspberry_pi_install.md`
## Building from source
With a C++20 compiler and `KLAMMERTEXT_HOME` set to this directory:
make -C com
This builds the Klammermachine library (into `lib/`), the SKS components, and
the three commands — `ktext`, `kdesc`, `kdiag` (into `bin/`). See the
source-install guide for prerequisites (TeX Live for PDF output, Python, and so
on).
## Working with an AI assistant
If you use a language model to help write Klammertext, give it
[`doc/klammertext_for_llm.md`](doc/klammertext_for_llm.md). It is a dense
reference written for a model rather than a person: the syntax, the things a
model is most likely to assume wrongly about it (Klammertext is not LaTeX,
Markdown, or Lisp, and reads oddly if you expect any of them), and how to ask
the `kdesc` and `kdiag` commands for the current state of the machine instead
of guessing.
## Editor support
Editing support for Emacs, Sublime Text, Vim, and Visual Studio Code —
syntax highlighting, delimiter matching, structural reindentation, table
alignment, diagnostics — is in [`doc/edit/`](doc/edit/), together with the
shared implementation and the Klammertext language server they build on.
## Provenance
This repository is a curated snapshot of Klammertext's private development
tree, assembled by a manifest-driven script. Its history is a series of
release snapshots, not a mirror of the development history, and files here
are regenerated on each release — patches cannot be merged directly.
Report problems (or send patches) to the author; accepted changes are
applied to the development tree and appear in a following snapshot.
This snapshot was assembled from development commit `a9756dac74c6`.
## License
See [`LICENSE.md`](LICENSE.md).