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Txt2tags is a document generator. It reads a text file with minimal markup as **bold** and //italic// and converts it to the following formats: HTML, XHTML, SGML, LaTeX, Lout, s **bold** and //italic// and converts it to the following formats: HTML, XHTML, SGML, LaTeX, Lout, Man page, MoinMoin, MagicPoint, PageMaker.

Features

Many supported formats

• HTML document
• XHTML document
• SGML document
• LaTeX document
• Lout document
• UNIX manual page (man)
• MoinMoin page (wiki)
• MagicPoint presentation (mgp)
• PageMaker document

Simple

• KISS: The program follows the sacred KISS Principle.
• Ready To Use: No configuration, no compiling. Just download and run.
• Save Your Hair: No more library, catalog, schema and DTD nightmares.
• Straight Edge: Aimed for documents and websites, not books.
• Sanity: No flow control, system() or other programming capabilities.
• Beauty: Being simple is feature, not a bug.

Techie

• Clean Results: The generated code is clean, readable, and valid.
• Multi-platform: Runs on Linux, Mac, Windows and many others.
• User Interfaces: Command line (–options), GUI (Tk) and Web (PHP).
• Any Text editor: Use the editor you like most.
• Spellcheck Friendly: Marks are symbols, the speller will ignore them.
• Light Resources: It does not index, compile, calculate, compress, draw or do any strong processing.
• License: GPL.

More than just code

• Complete Documentation: Guides, samples, reference. Translated to many languages.
• Extras: Syntax files for text editors, auto-update tools, HTML to t2t.
• Support: Mailing list with friendly users and the program author.
• Team work: The user community contributes actively to the project.
• User base: The txt2tags user base is large and world-wide.
• Experience: Born in 2001, today txt2tags is very stable and mature.

Minimalist markup

• Less Typing: Marks are symbols like +, : and =.
• Natural Marks: You already use some of them in e-mails.
• Uncomplicated: No keywords, no parameters, no attributes.
• Readable: The source file remains readable, unpolluted.
• Consistent: Simple and consistent rules, no "special cases".
• Strong: Marks are unique enough to don’t confuse with contents.
• Rich: We have marks for tables, images, lists, comments and more.
• Easy: Learn fast

Diet Python

• One-file Program: Just a single Python script, no extra files.
• Standard Library: Works on default Python install, no extra modules are required.
• Careful Coding: Backwards compatible, runs even on ancient Python version 1.5.
• Very Fast: Even real big documents take a blink of an eye to convert.

Simple but not limited

• TOC Generation: Automatic Table of Contents.
• Automatic Numbering: Don’t mind about numbering topics/headings.
• Include: You can include external files as marked or tagged text.
• Filters: Use regular expressions for Pre and Post processing filters.
• Scripting Friendly: It can read from STDIN and write to STDOUT.
• Configuration: Optional config file can store preferences and filters.

Download from: SourceForge