Akoma Ntoso is a markup language for legislative documents.
In the same way that Markdown is a plain-text markup language for generating HTML, CLEAN is a plain-text markup language for generating Akoma Ntoso representations of Canadian statutes and regulations.
TODO
Write your markup, load it into a string variable, and run
from clean import generate_act
text = """Title
1. Section one.
"""
print(generate_act(text))A CLEAN-formatted piece of legislation has the following features:
- The first line is the short title of the act.
- Headers are preceded by a blank line, and appear on their own line.
- Sections begin with a number, then a period, then a space, and their text.
- Subsections are indented, and begin with a number in parentheses
- Paragraphs are indented again, and begin with a letter in parentheses
- Subparagraphs are indented thrice, and begin with a lowercase roman numeral in parentheses
- Text is kept on one line.
An example act might look like this:
Rock Paper Scissors Act
Players
1. A game of rock paper scissors has two players.
2. There are three signs:
(1) Rock,
(2) Paper, and
(3) Scissors.
Defeating Relationships
3. The signs have the following relationships:
(1) Rock beats Scissors,
(2) Scissors beats Paper, and
(3) Paper beats Rock.
Winner
4. The winner of a game is the player who throws a sign that beats the sign of the other player.