# Install texi2mdoc with Homebrew, Nix

Convert Texinfo data to mdoc input. Version 0.1.2 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#texi2mdoc.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:texi2mdoc
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install texi2mdoc
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#texi2mdoc
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/te/texi2mdoc/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:texi2mdoc
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.1.2
- **Source summary:** Convert Texinfo data to mdoc input
- **Homepage:** <https://mandoc.bsd.lv/texi2mdoc/>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- texi2mdoc (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.1.2
## Project history and usage

texi2mdoc is a small mandoc-family command-line converter for turning GNU Texinfo source into mdoc(7), the BSD manual-page macro language. Its history is closely tied to mandoc's effort to reduce dependence on groff-era documentation tooling in Unix package ecosystems.

### Project history

The mandoc development history records work on texi2mdoc beginning on 2015-02-16, credited to Kristaps Dzonsons, as a converter from texinfo(5) to mdoc(7). The mandoc homepage later listed texi2mdoc alongside pod2mdoc and docbook2mdoc as companion utilities for translating non-mdoc documentation formats into native BSD manual markup.

### Adoption history

texi2mdoc has remained a niche tool rather than a broad application platform. Its adoption is most visible in source-based packaging and documentation maintenance contexts where maintainers prefer checked-in mdoc manuals over generated Info files or heavier documentation build chains.

### How it is used

Package maintainers use texi2mdoc when upstream documentation is written in Texinfo but the target distribution wants mdoc(7) manual pages that can be rendered and checked by mandoc. It sits in the same workflow family as pod2mdoc and docbook2mdoc: conversion first, then manual review and packaging.

### Why package nerds care

For package nerds, texi2mdoc matters because it bridges GNU-style Texinfo documentation and BSD-style manual-page culture. It is small, single-purpose, and useful when a port wants native manpages without carrying a large Texinfo runtime path.

### Timeline

- 2015: mandoc development history records the start of texi2mdoc work as a texinfo(5) to mdoc(7) converter.
- 2015 onward: texi2mdoc is distributed as a mandoc companion utility for documentation conversion.

### Related projects

- mandoc provides the mdoc/man compiler and documentation-tooling context for texi2mdoc.
- GNU Texinfo is the source documentation format texi2mdoc converts from.
- pod2mdoc and docbook2mdoc are sibling conversion utilities in the mandoc ecosystem.

### Sources

- <https://mandoc.bsd.lv/ - lists texi2mdoc as a utility to convert GNU Texinfo documents to mdoc(7).>
- <https://mandoc.bsd.lv/devhistory.html - records 2015-02-16 start of texi2mdoc work as a texinfo(5) to mdoc(7) converter.>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - texi2mdoc: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/te/texi2mdoc/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/texi2mdoc.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/texi2mdoc.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph