txt2tags

txt2tags

Original author(s)	Aurelio Jargas
Developer(s)	txt2tags Team
Initial release	July 26, 2001 (2001-07-26)
Stable release	2.6 / November 5, 2010 (2010-11-05)
Written in	Python
Type	lightweight markup language
License	GNU General Public License
Website	txt2tags.org

txt2tags is a document generator software that uses a lightweight markup language. txt2tags is free software under GNU General Public License.

Written in Python, it can export documents to several formats including: HTML, XHTML, SGML, LaTeX, Lout, roff, MediaWiki, Google Code Wiki, DokuWiki, MoinMoin, MagicPoint, PageMaker and plain text.

Syntax examples

**bold text**
//italic text//
``monospace text``
__underlined__
--strike-through--

= Level 1 Header =
== Level 2 Header ==
=== Level 3 Header ===

[Link text www.example.com]

See also

• Comparison of documentation generators
• Setext, old lightweight markup language (1992).
• Markdown, widespread lightweight markup language.
• MultiMarkdown, improved Markdown.
• Org-mode, a similar lightweight markup.
• reStructuredText, a similar lightweight markup (also used to produce Python documentations).
• Textile, a similar lightweight markup language to produce HTML.
• Asciidoc, a similar lightweight markup language supporting many types of documents.

External links

• project website, at SourceForge
• Example syntax: rendered, source
• Wixi, a project based on txt2tags
• Rednotebook, a simple journaling tool which uses txt2tags syntax