What brevier prints, and when

The page is HTML with CSS. No proprietary format, no drawing code.

Write a letter in Markdown with front matter. brevier eject turns it into the HTML it compiles to.

Handlebars syntax binds JSON into the template: values, loops and conditions.

Amounts and dates print the way German and English readers expect.

--emit-html writes the exact HTML the engine received, and --format html renders a web view of the same document.

A misspelt field fails the check before anything prints.

Compound words break at their joins: Berufsunfähigkeits-versicherung, not Beruf-sunfähigkeit. Companies can add their own words.

Each field is text, multiline, rich or raw. Stray <br/>, &nbsp; and double spaces are cleaned per field.

Declared column widths and a header row that repeats on every page.

The running total is carried to the bottom of each page and to the top of the next.

Seite 3 von 12, in one editable block, on every page.

Numbered clauses, a table of contents with page numbers, and small print that stays readable. No heading is left alone at the bottom of a page.

The address sits in the envelope window, with fold marks and the reference line where German offices expect them.

brand.yml holds the logo, colours and fonts. brand check finds missing glyphs and weak contrast.

Every PDF is PDF/A-3b and passes veraPDF.

The invoice XML is bound from the same data as the page, so the two cannot disagree.

Reads Java classes or Python models and writes a schema, a template and sample data.

.jrxml files become an HTML template and a JSON Schema.

.docx files and their mail-merge fields become an HTML template and a JSON Schema.

The forms iText fills today become templates, with their fields as a schema.

Finds overflowing text, squeezed columns, hyphen runs and missing glyphs, each pointing at a line of the HTML. Runs in CI.

pip, a Docker image, or a one-line script for Linux, macOS and Windows.

Re-renders in the browser every time you save.

Runs the engine as a service for your applications.