Publisher review:Txt2tags is a document generator. 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, 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.
Txt2tags 2.4 is a Python script for Text Tools scripts design by Aurelio Marinho Jargas.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris.
Operating system:Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris