Yodl is a package implementing a pre-document language and tools to process it. The idea of Yodl is that you write up a document in a pre-language, then use the tools (e.g. yodl2html) to convert it to some final document language. Current converters are for HTML, man, LaTeX, a poor-man's text converter and an experimental XML converter. Main document types are `article', `report', `book', `letter' and `manpage'. The Yodl document language is designed to be easy to use and extensible.