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# TextCarver

### What is TextCarver and why might you want it?
TextCarver is a document generation tool. Some reasons you might like it:

* It’s based on Markdown for easy, standard text formatting.
* The powerful TextCarver language lets your slice and dice your text programmatically.
* Easy access to the full formatting capabilities of HTML and CSS.
* Full project management, PDF generation, and site generation features.
* Easily add of JavaScript functionality anywhere in your document.

Some things you might use TextCarver for:

* As a static site generator.
* Building multiple versions of a document, with different content and formatting for each version.
* Re-using the same source text in multiple places.
* Automatically generating documents from templates and variable source input.



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