txt2tags

Txt2tags is a document generator created by Aurelio Jargas in 2001. It reads a text file with minimal markup such as **bold** and //italic// and converts it to many formats, such as:

• AsciiDoc
• DocBook
• HTML
• LaTeX
• MoinMoin
• UNIX man page
• Wikipedia/MediaWiki
• …and many others.

Txt2tags is available in two different versions, which are branches inside this repository.

Branch v2, txt2tags version 2.7-dev

Full featured txt2tags version that works on Python 2.

• Runs on Python versions 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7.

• Many years of development and contributions since txt2tags version 2.6 from 2010: bug fixes, new features (templates, remote files, more macros), new targets (bbcode, CSV, HTML5, Markdown, RTF, ReStructuredText, …) - see changelog

• No official release for txt2tags version 2.7 yet, use the GitHub code.

• The maintainer is Florent Gallaire.

Branch v3, txt2tags version 3.x

Simpler txt2tags version that works on Python 3, branched off from txt2tags version 2.6.

• Runs on Python versions 2.7 and 3.x.

• Removed features (GUI, macros, i18n, translations, ASCII Art/PageMaker/XHTML targets) and only supports UTF-8 files, to achieve easier maintenance (see changelog).

• New releases are available as PyPI packages.

• The maintainer is Jendrik Seipp.

Feature differences between versions

Feature	v2.6	v2.7-dev	v3.x
Runs on Python <2.5	✅	❌	❌
Runs on Python 2.5	✅	✅	❌
Runs on Python 2.6	✅	✅	❌
Runs on Python 2.7	✅	✅	✅
Runs on Python 3	❌	❌	✅
Supported encodings	All	All	UTF-8
GUI interface	✅	✅	❌
Internationalization (i18n)	✅	✅	❌
Translations	✅	✅	❌
Remote HTTP files	❌	✅	❌
User-defined templates	❌	✅	❌
Command: %!csv	✅	✅	❌
Macro: %%date	✅	✅	❌
Macro: %%mtime	✅	✅	❌
Macro: %%infile	✅	✅	❌
Macro: %%outfile	✅	✅	❌
Macro: %%toc	✅	✅	❌
Macro: %%appname	❌	✅	❌
Macro: %%appurl	❌	✅	❌
Macro: %%appversion	❌	✅	❌
Macro: %%cmdline	❌	✅	❌
Macro: %%encoding	❌	✅	❌
Macro: %%header1	❌	✅	❌
Macro: %%header2	❌	✅	❌
Macro: %%header3	❌	✅	❌
Macro: %%target	❌	✅	❌
Option: --encoding	✅	✅	❌
Option: --css-inside	✅	✅	❌
Setting: %!postvoodoo	❌	✅	❌
Setting: %!encoding	✅	✅	❌
Target: ASCII Art	✅	✅	❌
Target: ASCII Art Presentation	❌	✅	❌
Target: ASCII Art Presentation Web	❌	✅	❌
Target: ASCII Art Spreadsheet	❌	✅	❌
Target: ASCII Art Web	❌	✅	❌
Target: AsciiDoc document	✅	✅	✅
Target: BBCode	❌	✅	❌
Target: CSV	❌	✅	❌
Target: Creole 1.0 document	✅	✅	✅
Target: ConTeXt document	❌	❌	✅
Target: DocBook document	✅	✅	✅
Target: DokuWiki page	✅	✅	✅
Target: Foswiki / TWiki	❌	✅	❌
Target: Google Wiki page	✅	✅	✅
Target: HTML	✅	✅	❌
Target: HTML Spreadsheet	❌	✅	❌
Target: HTML5	❌	✅	✅
Target: LaTeX Spreadsheet	❌	✅	❌
Target: LaTeX document	✅	✅	✅
Target: Lout document	✅	✅	✅
Target: MOM groff macro	❌	✅	❌
Target: MagicPoint presentation	✅	✅	✅
Target: Markdown	❌	✅	✅
Target: MoinMoin page	✅	✅	✅
Target: Open Document Spreadsheet	❌	✅	❌
Target: PageMaker	✅	✅	❌
Target: Plain Text	✅	✅	✅
Target: PmWiki page	✅	✅	✅
Target: RTF	❌	✅	❌
Target: ReStructuredText	❌	✅	❌
Target: Redmine Wiki (Textile)	❌	✅	❌
Target: SGML document	✅	✅	✅
Target: SPIP	❌	✅	❌
Target: SQLite database	❌	✅	❌
Target: Slidy slides	❌	✅	❌
Target: Txt2tags	❌	✅	❌
Target: UNIX Manual page	✅	✅	✅
Target: Utmac (utroff)	❌	✅	❌
Target: Vimwiki	❌	✅	❌
Target: Wikipedia page (MediaWiki)	✅	✅	✅
Target: WordPress	❌	✅	❌
Target: XHTML	✅	✅	❌
Target: XHTML strict	❌	✅	❌

Unlisted features are available in all versions.