使用 Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper 安装 txt2tags

项目链接

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命令和别名

• txt2tags

项目历史

The project came out of the Unix tradition of keeping source documents plain, diffable, and scriptable. Official project material describes a split between a feature-rich Python 2 branch, v2, and a simpler Python 3-compatible v3 branch that was branched from txt2tags 2.6 and intentionally removed some older features to make maintenance easier.

The official old news archive shows active mid-2000s development around new targets, translations, documentation, and ports. By late 2004 the project had 2.x releases, Lout support, command-line options, and several translations.

采用历史

The old project news records early use by documentation-heavy communities. In 2004 it noted PicoContainer using txt2tags for a book and the OpenPHPNuke documentation team switching program docs from LaTeX to txt2tags because the source was readable, quick to edit, and friendlier to version control.

The same archive records an OpenBSD port entering the official tree in early 2005, a useful signal for package-manager adoption because it moved txt2tags from a downloadable script into a Unix ports workflow.

使用方式

Package users install the `txt2tags` CLI to keep one marked-up source file and generate target formats for websites, manuals, wikis, books, and documentation. Its appeal is strongest where plain text, reproducible conversion, and low ceremony matter more than a large publishing stack.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

For package nerds, txt2tags is interesting as a compact documentation converter with a long tail across ports and distro repositories. It represents the pre-Pandoc era of markup tools where small Unix-friendly converters solved practical documentation and man-page generation problems.

时间线

• 2001: Aurelio Jargas created txt2tags.
• 2004: Official news recorded txt2tags 2.1 and 2.2 releases, new targets, and translations.
• 2005: Official news recorded an OpenBSD port entering the official tree.
• 2010: txt2tags 2.6 became the base for later v2 and v3 branch histories.
• 2016-2020s: The GitHub repository tracked the Python 3-oriented v3 line with PyPI releases.

Related projects

• Related tools in the same package-manager niche include Pandoc, AsciiDoc, reStructuredText, DocBook processors, Markdown converters, wiki markup exporters, and man-page generation tools.

来源

• https://github.com/txt2tags/txt2tags#readme
• https://txt2tags.org/docs
• https://txt2tags.org/misc/oldnews.html
• source_facts.package-manager