Type or paste EVE syntax into the box, then click or tab away. Load an example

EVE will convert your plain text into XML markup, display it, and post it to the page. Use the Save option to save a copy of the EVE XML. For local display, you can download a CSS file (that's a link, try the right-click), which provides styling info for the XML. It's pretty straightforward as CSS goes and amenable to editing or borrowing - a link to it is given at the top of the EVE XML (and can also be removed or altered).

Try the Anthologizer for a way to collect the EVE XML you save.

The EVE processor on this page reads your input and parses it to produce formatted verse (lineated text). It is meant to support the sensitive display, aggregation (collection) and publishing of poetry and poetry selections, or of (brief, unstructured) critical commentaries in general.

Plain-text EVE notation (a markdown variant) will be displayed as verse or prose, according to the rules of EVE. While designed primarily for poetry (structured verse), EVE also supports comments, footnotes, and embedded or inset text (quotes).

The XML representation of your EVE — a tools-agnostic saveable format — will also be shown. And you can save it.

Since this is CSX, no data is ever pushed over any network. The page works the same loaded from cache as it does when a server delivers it.

EVE, the Electronic Verse Engineer, has several parts:

• A markdown syntax (EVE format or EVE.txt)
• A processor that reads EVE.txt syntax
• An XML representation (EVE XML) of a data model that is readily and unambiguously determinable from EVE.txt.
• A set of rules, followed by the processor, for making either of these formats (EVE.txt or EVE XML) from the other
• Tools for using all this
  • Making EVE XML from EVE.txt
  • Producing other formats from EVE XML