texi2html mit Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• texi2html

Projektgeschichte

Official Savannah release archives show Texi2HTML tarballs from the 1.65 through 1.76 series uploaded in July 2005, followed by 1.78 in 2007, 1.80 and 1.82 in January 2009, and 5.0 in July 2010.

The NEWS-5.0 file records a broader formatter direction in 2010: the program could be called as makeinfo or texi2any, handled output formats including XML, DocBook, Info, HTML, and plaintext, and added new backends and compatibility changes.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Texi2HTML predates the modern package-manager CLI wave and belongs to the Unix documentation toolchain era. Its adoption came from projects using Texinfo as the source format for manuals and needing generated HTML for websites or packaged documentation.

The batch input shows that even as an older tool it remains packaged across Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora/dnf, MacPorts, Nix, Arch/pacman, and openSUSE/zypper. That is typical of legacy documentation converters: rarely trendy, but preserved because old build systems still refer to them.

Wie es verwendet wird

The core use is running texi2html against Texinfo sources to produce HTML. The 5.0 NEWS file also notes makeinfo-compatible invocation, texi2any invocation, and multiple output backends, which made it useful in documentation build pipelines.

Package users normally install it to satisfy build dependencies for older source packages, regenerate project manuals, or keep historical documentation workflows reproducible.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Texi2HTML is package-nerd significant because it is part of the long tail of documentation infrastructure. It is the sort of converter that survives in package sets because removing it can break old manuals, ports, and source releases.

Its presence across many Unix package managers makes it a compatibility package: not a fashionable CLI, but a useful bridge between Texinfo source and generated web documentation.

Zeitleiste

• 2005: Savannah archive contains 1.65 through 1.76 release tarballs.
• 2007: Version 1.78 released.
• 2009: Versions 1.80 and 1.82 released.
• 2010: Version 5.0 released with makeinfo and texi2any invocation support and additional output backends.

Related projects

• GNU Texinfo, makeinfo, texi2any, Info manuals, DocBook, XML output, plaintext manual generation, and legacy documentation build systems.

Quellen

• current_curation.docs
• https://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/texi2html/
• https://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/texi2html/NEWS-5.0
• input.source_facts.package-manager