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AsciiDoc AsciiDoc is a text document format for writing short documents, articles, books and UNIX man pages. AsciiDoc files can be translated to HTML and DocBook markups using the asciidoc(1) command. AsciiDoc is highly configurable: both the AsciiDoc source file syntax and the backend output markups (which can be almost any type of SGML/XML markup) can be customized and extended by the user.

BHL BHL is an Emacs mode that lets you convert plain TXT files into HTML, LaTeX, and SGML (Linuxdoc) files. The BHL mode handles common font-styles, three levels of sections, footnotes, and any kind of lists, tables, URLs and horizontal rules. It also handles a table of contents: you can browse the toc, insert the toc where you want, and update the sections' numbers with one keystroke.

Catdoc The program extracts text from Word files while preserving as many special characters as possible. It does not try to preserve Word formatting, but does extract readable text. A Tcl/Tk graphical viewer is included as well, and versions 0.91.2 and above include an Excel file converter.

Cpp2latex 'cpp2latex' converts C++ into LaTeX either for including into existing LaTeX documents or as standalone documents. The current version (2.0) supports syntax highlighting.

Deplate 'deplate' is a tool for converting documents written in an unobtrusive, wiki-like markup to LaTeX, DocBook, HTML, or "HTML slides". It supports embedded LaTeX code, footnotes, citations, bibliographies, automatic generation of an index, etc. In contrast to many wiki engines, it is intended for "offline" use as a document preparation tool.

Docbook2X 'docbook2X' converts DocBook documents to man pages and Texinfo

Docutils Docutils is a text processing system for processing plaintext documentation into useful formats, such as HTML or LaTeX. It includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language.

EXtrans eXtrans translates XML documents into other formats or representations. It can output formats HTML, XML, LateX, pictures, sound, or anything else that the python language can manipulate. Those translations are driven by abstract translators (xtrans scripts) embedding python code. The translators are easy to write, since the underlying system habdles all the complicated details of XML parsing, reference resolving, file management and even python programming in a way transparent to the user. This distribution includes GimpClient, a python module for communicating with Gimp. Through it, xtrans scripts can efficiently access a powerful graphics program.

Groff Based on a device-independent version of `troff,' `groff' (GNU Troff) is a document processor which reads plain text and formatting commands, produces formatted output from them, and then outputs it to another device. The package is essential for viewing online manual pages. Output can be produced in a number of formats including plain ASCII and PostScript. All the standard macro packages are supported.

Help2man 'help2man' automatically generates simple manual pages from program files by reasonably rearranging standard --help and --version outputs into something that resembles a manual page. It lets developers include a manual page in their distribution without having to maintain that document.

Highlight Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It supports Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Java, Perl, PHP, and 40 more programming and markup languages. It is also possible to easily enhance the parsing database.

Html2xhtml Html to Xhtml Convertor converts HTML pages into XHTML pages. It can process batches of files, convert line breaks, and deal with attribute minimization, quoting of attribute values, and more.

Indexed PDF Creator Indexed PDF Creator creates indexed PDF documents from text files. It was primarily written as a utility to convert old mainframe print formats to something that can easily be posted on the Web. It allows indexing, customizing page settings, font size, font face, and superimposing text over an image in the case of using pre-printed forms. It supports unlimited levels of indexing bookmarks in documents and system/user configuration files

Info to html info_to_html does everything info2html does, and more. Added features include links to other info files, the ability to read compressed files, and a nicer layout.

Info2html Info files are text files with embedded link directives. They are usually read with emacs or a special purpose browser. 'info2html' looks for a specific info node in an info file and translates it to HTML syntax. Link directives are translated in URLs pointing back to the server. Some icons are provided for link directives and cross references. infocat is a little front-end that gives an index of the .info files available via the local info2html server.

Java2html When given a source java file, program produces an HTML source with syntax highlighting. As of June 12, 2001, this program will be part of GNU source-highlight ((http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/) a collection of syntax highlighting programs. Please see that Directory entry for the most current information.

Jaxml Jaxml is a python module designed to automatically generate human readable documents.

Kwaff Kwaff is a pretty tool to convert Kwaff format document into XML document, and also convert XML into Kwaff. Kwaff format is a friendly format for human to read and write than XML. Kwaff format makes XML as easy as YAML to read and write.

Kwalify Kwalify is a parser, schema validator, and data binding tool for YAML and JSON. YAML and JSON are simple and nice format for structured data and easier for human to read and write than XML. But there have been no schema for YAML such as RelaxNG or DTD. Kwalify gets over this situation. From version 0.7, Kwalify supports data binding. If you specify class name in schema file, Kwalify YAML parser creates instance objects of that class instead of Hash objects. It means that you don't have to convert Hash into proper object any more. Data binding makes YAML much easier to handle and manipulate.

Majix 'MajiX' transforms RTF files such as Microsoft Word documents into XML. It can convert headings, lists (numbered or not), simple tables, bold, italics, and underline.