Blog? Blog.
26 Jul 2006

Hi there.

There is a new place to stay in touch with the latest news about the project: the txt2tags Blog. Stay updated about releases, files, documents, translations, site updates.

The good old do-it-yourself news/RSS by hand worked until today, but using a Blog system like WordPress, we get some advantages:

  • Feeds (RSS) with HTML code. The old "by hand" was text-only.
  • Automatic feeds for: whole blog, each category, each post, all comments, comments by post.
  • Permanent (readable) URL for each post, important to keep things organized and easy to find.
  • Multiple categories (tags) to mark each post, so you can monitor just want interests you.
  • And more.

Talking about feeds, subscribe to the txt2tags blog now!

But my favorite feature is having comments for each post. Now everybody can talk and contribute, changing the monologue to a nice conversation.

It's up and running. Enjoy!

NetBSD txt2tags package
11 Jul 2006

Daniel Bolgheroni packaged txt2tags for the NetBSD system (pkgsrc). Got interested? Check the download page.

New Apache module mod_t2t
06 Feb 2006

Cesar Gimenes created a new module for the Apache web server, mod_t2t. Using this module you can upload just the .t2t files to the web server, and the HTML files will be generated on demand. It saves disk space since the source files are smaller, and maybe some interesting uses of the %%date macro may appear!

Writing Books translated to Spanish
26 Dec 2005

Antoni Serra Devecchi has translated the Writing Books to Spanish.

Czech translation combo
28 Sep 2005

Spotlights on, it's Vlastimil Ott show time! He translated at once the Sample File, Markup Demo and Quick Reference documents to Czech.

User Guide translated to German
05 Sep 2005

Andreas Deininger has translated the big User Guide to German.

Quick Reference translated to French
24 Aug 2005

Claude Hiebel has translated the Quick Reference to French.

ArchLinux txt2tags package
17 Aug 2005

If you're an ArchLinux user, you will like to know that Douglas Soares has made a txt2tags package for your system. Get the package on the download page.

Markup Demo translated to Esperanto
17 Aug 2005

Rodrigo Cacilhas has translated the Markup Demo to Esperanto.

Sample File translated to Esperanto
16 Aug 2005

Rodrigo Cacilhas has translated the Sample File to Esperanto.

Manual Page translated to Italian
14 Aug 2005

Stefano Spinucci has translated the Manual Page to Italian.

Txt2tags project and donations
12 Aug 2005

After 4 years of txt2tags, donations are now turned ON. SourceForge has a nice built-in donate feature (via PayPal), so I thought "Why not?". If you like to donate to Open Source software, [now you can {URLDONATE}]. If you don't, just ignore the Donate button.

FAQ: Nothing changes. Txt2tags will never be paid-software. I don't expect to become rich. The site won't be spammed with Donate buttons. Txt2tags continues to be a one-man spare-time project, with the help of many volunteers.

Quick Reference translated to Catalan
07 Aug 2005

Antoni Serra Devecchi has translated the Quick Reference to Catalan.

The Txt2tags Team Gallery
05 Aug 2005

As you may have noticed by the latest news, the translators are working very hard, even fighting the big 50-page User Guide. Doing so, they have their nice happy picture placed on the brand-new Txt2tags Team Gallery. Don't miss this link, see them all! But I'm wondering... Why they keep translating even when their picture is already there? Maybe they are trying to impress Fabianne, the only girl on the team? ;)

Writing Books translated to Brazilian Portuguese
05 Aug 2005

Ielton Ferreira has translated the Writing Books to Brazilian Portuguese.

Markup Demo translated to Luxembourgish
04 Aug 2005

Pascal Steichen has translated the Markup Demo to Luxembourgish.

Catalan translation combo
30 Jul 2005

Antoni Serra Devecchi pressed his "full-speed ahead" pedal and translated at once the Sample File, Markup Demo and Manual Page documents to Catalan.

Quick Reference translated to Hungarian
28 Jul 2005

Tamás Iván has translated the Quick Reference to Hungarian.

Quick Reference translated to German
28 Jul 2005

Andreas Deininger has translated the Quick Reference to German.

Manual Page translated to Spanish
28 Jul 2005

Antoni Serra Devecchi has translated the Manual Page to Spanish.

Sample File translated to German
27 Jul 2005

Pascal Steichen has translated the Sample File to German.

User Guide translated to Spanish
24 Jul 2005

Antoni Serra Devecchi has translated the big User Guide to Spanish.

Quick Reference translated to Chinese
24 Jul 2005

Zoom Quiet has translated the Quick Reference to Chinese.

Quick Reference translated to Brazilian Portuguese
23 Jul 2005

Ielton Ferreira has translated the Quick Reference to Brazilian Portuguese.

Quick Reference translated to Spanish
22 Jul 2005

Luis Cortázar has translated the Quick Reference to Spanish.

RSS feed for txt2tags news
21 Jul 2005

Now you can be notified of txt2tags news using the site's RSS feed. Please don't abuse the refresh rate, "1 day" should be enough. Nerd Note: the feed is generated from a SED script that parses this page.

Markup Demo translated to German
20 Jul 2005

Pascal Steichen has translated the Markup Demo to German.

Markup Demo translated to Spanish
12 Jul 2005

Luis Cortázar has translated the Markup Demo to Spanish.

Wanna contribute to the txt2tags project? Translate!
11 Jul 2005

Check out the new Documentation page, now with links to the document sources and instructions on how to translate them. The most important documents are the shorter, so it is very quick to make a translation. Do you have some 15 or 30 spare minutes? Help us!

New document: Quick Reference
11 Jul 2005

There is a new document to help novice and experienced txt2tags users, the Txt2tags Quick Reference. It is a one-page PDF ready to print and stick to a wall around your desk. Don't think, download :) Thanks José Inácio Coelho da Silva, Leslie Harlley Watter and Christof Böckler for making their own quick references which inspired this one.

Markup Demo translated to Hungarian
08 Jul 2005

Tamás Iván has translated the Markup Demo to Hungarian.

Released 2.3 version
17 Jun 2005

Guess what? New txt2tags release! After some months of silence, the red octopus rises again. This time there are new command line options --dump-source and --config-file, and a really nice table column span feature. You are a long time txt2tags user? So you will appreciate the new "Markup Rules" document. English is not your mother tongue? Maybe you should try the documents translated to French, Chinese and Hungarian. Read more about the news and download the new version!

Sample document and Markup Demo translated to Chinese
26 May 2005

Zoom Quiet has translated the sample document and the Markup Demo to Chinese.

All program documentation translated to French
21 Mar 2005

Claude Hiebel has made an accomplishment. First he translated the program messages, now he has translated ALL the program documentation to French, including the big User Guide. French users are encouraged to send him gifts or at least a "Merci Beaucoup" for that (chiebel (a) free fr).

Sample document translated to Hungarian
15 Feb 2005

Adam Schmideg has translated the sample document to Hungarian.

The program was ported to the OpenBSD system
01 Feb 2005

Gleydson Soares has ported txt2tags to be installed on the OpenBSD operating system. It is now part of the official tree. The link is on the Download page.

Released 2.2 version
30 Dec 2004

The txt2tags 2.2 version was released. All the new features are described in this page. The big highlight is the new supported target: Lout documents. Other news are the --css-inside command line option, the T2TCONFIG environment variable and translations to French, German and Spanish.

Program translated to Spanish, German and French
30 Nov 2004

The translations are full speed ahead! The program was translated to Spanish by Ielton Ferreira Carneiro Pinto, to German by Manfred Schreiweis and to French by Claude Hiebel. These translations will be present on the next release.

OpenPHPNuke Doc Team using txt2tags
17 Nov 2004

The OpenPHPNuke documentation team has announced that they are switching all the program docs from LaTeX to txt2tags format. Some of the reasons were: source readable, quick editing and version control via SVN.

Released 2.1 version
13 Nov 2004

The txt2tags 2.1 version was released. All the new features are described in this page. The highlights are the %%infile, %%outfile, %%mtime and %%toc macros and the --quiet command line option. The program was also translated to Hungarian and Italian and the documentation was improved.

"Writing Books with Txt2tags" document
15 Oct 2004

Inspired by the previous book announce, there is a new Writing Books with Txt2tags document, showing the benefits of using txt2tags on the book writing process. If you plan to write a book, or is using txt2tags just for tiny documents, save 5 minutes for the reading. I promise it worths!

A full book being written with txt2tags
12 Oct 2004

The PicoContainer team announced that they decided to use txt2tags as the writing tool for their "Constructor Dependency Injection" book. Links: Full announce, book preview, some thoughts about it.

gVim editor menu
07 Oct 2004

Otávio Cordeiro has made a txt2tags gVim menu. So gVim editor users can easily insert txt2tags marks into documents just clicking on menu items. For example, selecting some words and clicking on the "bold" menu item makes the text marked as bold. See the screenshot!

Program translated to Italian
09 Set 2004

Stefano Spinucci translated all the program messages to Italian (it). The translations will be present in the next release. Curious? See the screenshot!

Program listed on the python.org site
08 Set 2004

Txt2tags was listed under the "HTML Shorthand Processors" section of the WebProgramming page, part of the major Python.org site.

New "User Comments" section on the site
26 Ago 2004

Today is the debut of the User Comments section of the site, to register the user impressions about the program. Are you already a txt2tags user? Please send your comments!

Version 2.0 also packaged to Debian and Gentoo
18 Ago 2004

If you are a Debian or Gentoo user, now you can download txt2tags version 2.0 already packaged to your distro. Tgz, RPM, Slackware, IPK packages and the Windows installer are also available.

Sample and "Abuse me" files translated to Spanish
11 Ago 2004

Luis Cortázar translated the txt2tags sample and "Abuse me" files to Spanish. He also made his own version of both, available on his site: Sample, Abuse me. The translation of the original files will be present in the next release.

IPK package to install txt2tags in Linux PDAs
06 Ago 2004

Anamim Thuler Schuwarte has packaged the program to the IPK format, used in PDAs running Linux. Please go to the project site at http://txt2tags-pda.sourceforge.net for the download link and more information about the package.

Program translated to Hungarian
27 Jul 2004

Tamás Iván translated all the program messages to Hungarian (hu). The translations will be present in the next release. Curious? See the screenshot!

Aurelio interview on Linux Reviews site
26 Jul 2004

Program history and future, Python, tips and more, check it out! http://linuxreviews.org/features/2004-07-26_verde/

Released 2.0 version
25 Jul 2004

After more than a year of coding now version 2.0 is ready. There are lots of news and they are all described in this document. The highlights are the XHTML format, W3C validated code, ~/.txt2tagsrc RC file, new command line options and i18n.

Txt2tags Orkut community
09 Jun 2004

Ielton, a txt2tags contributor has created an Orkut community for txt2tags. If you have an account on this site, join us.

Released my new version 1.7
30 Nov 2003

Release time, version 1.7 is out!

The users most requested command was added: %!include. Now you can insert text, parsed tags or even another .t2t file into the document source. See the User Guide related topic for details.

More checkins were added and some bugs fixed. Emacs users will like the brand new rewritten syntax highlight file! Vim users can also count with the up-to-date syntax file.

VERY IMPORTANT: This release closes my 1.x series, no 1.8 or 1.9 versions will come out. The next one will be the so waited 2.0, with rewritten Python code, more polished conversions and the new target XHTML. I will be cooler!

Finally I have a Man Page!
19 Set 2003

José Inácio Coelho wrote a man page for me. Try it right now!

prompt$ man txt2tags

Guess what - an IRC channel for me
11 Set 2003

There is a brand new #txt2tags channel on the irc.freenode.net server. Use your favorite Chat client and join us! On this channel you can talk to other users of the nicer conversion program ever ;)

Created that strange bright red octopus
23 Aug 2003

I'm not an octopus, I'm a robot. I don't know why my master did that strange image and put it here... But it's kinda cool :)

Portuguese translation of the website and documentation
22 Aug 2003

The new Portuguese mailing list joined together the Brazilian txt2tags users and lots of program documentation was translated. The new portuguese site is a portal to all these documents.

Released my new version 1.6
23 Jul 2003

Hi there! Here I am again with fresh news.

Today my v1.6 was released. The main improvements are the new %!preproc: and %!postproc: user defined filters. They are used to do some strange things on documents (see User Guide). There's also a new mark + for explicit numbered titles, +like this+, so now you can mix normal titles with numbered ones, like a book with Appendix.

Now all the config settings can be linked with a specific target, using the new %!key(target): value syntax. The target specification is optional, so the parenthesis and its contents can be omitted. A nice sample: %!encoding(html): iso-8859-1

Lots of user reported bugs were fixed, titles on LaTeX are unnumbered by default (as other targets) and the Gui was improved, showing %!cmdline contents (if any) and refreshing checkboxes when a new file is loaded. Gui also can receive options from the command line, as in txt2tags --gui -n file.t2t

My site is now using some CSS
21 Jul 2003

I'm feeling weird...

New portuguese Mailing List
18 Jul 2003

My user base is growing a lot! Specially by Brazilians, nice people of my master's land. So there's a brand new Mailing List for you Portuguese speakers! And prepare yourself for more surprises, as sample files and documentation also in portuguese. Just don't hold your breath ;)

New txt2tags for Windows project
12 Jul 2003

I have a brother! Mr. Guaracy Monteiro from Brazil created a new project called txt2tags-win, which purpose is to provide handy .EXE files for Windows users use me. If you do use Windows (with Python installed or not), check out the nice distribution files from his site!

New txt2tags.EXE install file for Windows
15 May 2003

Please go to the txt2tags-win page: http://txt2tags-win.sourceforge.net

GUI patch for version 1.5 (turns to v1.5.1)
14 May 2003

I'm sad :( My master released me with a critical bug on my Graphical Interface. Command line & Web users has no reason to worry.

If you do use me on the GUI mode (the orange one), please apply the patch to fix me.
Released my new version 1.5
09 May 2003

Tsc, Tsc... Almost three months from the last version, what a shame! But the new features will worth the delay.

The most important improvement is my new %!cmdline setting. Using it you can define default options for each document, and when converting, you can call me with no options at all! Example: You place a "%!cmdline: -t html --toc" line on your source document, then you can convert it with the simple "txt2tags file.t2t" command.

There is also a new --outfile option (-o for short) to set the output filename. If you specify "-o -", you get the same behavior of the old --stdout option (which is now deprecated).

Talking about options, there are the new short -H and -n for the existing --noheaders and --enumtitle options. A nice quick example: 

txt2tags-v1.4 -t html --enumtitle --stdout file.t2t > new.html
txt2tags-v1.5 -t html -n -o new.html file.t2t

Ah! LaTeX target now supports images :)

Released my new version 1.4
18 February 2003

I've enjoyed my X-mas/New Year vacation, then some lazy days on a hot Brazilian beach, what a great time! But now it is time to get back to work, so there's a new release of the most sexy text eater out there: me!

The burning sun has made lots of changes on me. I'm specially proud of my new ability to master table alignment. I can place the table centered or not, and I can place each table cell contents wherever I want! Left, Right, Centered... See AbuseMe! file for a demonstration.

The good news for HTML users is that now I've learned about that Cascading thing... SCC, CCS, CSS, I don't remember... Just use my new --style command line option or the %!Style: setting.

There's a new --toclevel option also, and I promise I'll not make TOC deeper than the number you pass me.

Mmmmmm, there were some bug fixes also, but let's forget about them, you know I'm not buggy! ;)

I was forked! Oops, ported!
01 January 2003

Hey! I was "ported" (or something like that) to a system called FreeBSD. Mmmmm, they have a demon... But I don't wanna go to hell!!!

Released my new version 1.3
20 December 2002

Weeee, I'm tired! Lots of changes were made on me for this release and now I need a break!

The news include a brand new mark (rare to happen!) for raw text, this way you can easily include marks on the document target and I promise I won't parse them!

A new Encoding command is available also for worldwide users specify their own Character Set for their documents.

And there are more improvements and fixes, but please read the ChangeLog file because now I'll go to sleep. zzZZzzzzZZZZzz...

My new User Guide
20 December 2002

My dear master released a new document, and it talks about me! This doc is still on the larval stage, but it will be cool someday. Read all about me, contribute, fix typos, enjoy!

Released my new version 1.2 (LaTeX release)
03 December 2002

Hi! Finally I've learned one of the geek's most used document formatting: LaTeX. Just run me with "-t tex" and see your current .t2t files turn into LaTeX, ready for compiling!

Ah! I'm getting smart, and now I can handle more than one file at the same time. Hint: *.t2t

And my last new feature is the ability of strip down an HTML file to an "almost finished" .t2t file. Sorry !Vimmers, because this works on Vim only.

What are you waiting for? Download me right now and test my new features: txt2tags --toc -t tex *.t2t

Released my new version 1.1
06 November 2002

Attention! Please read carefully before upgrade me!

This new v1.1 is a compatibility break release.

This means that after upgrading, you will have to check your current txt2tags files, and possibly fix them. Ignoring this release is not an option :) because the next versions will assume you have fixed your files.

Please read the "Survivor's Guide for v1.1 Upgrade" for more detailed information about what has changed and how to fix your files.

But there are nice news also:
  • Images can now point to links, as: [[img.gif] www.abc.com]
  • New foldmethod=syntax rules on the Vim syntax file
  • Improvements on the URL matcher

My own mailing list
23 October, 2002

Today I woke up from bed surprised with a brand new mailing list about me! Please subscribe, please, pleeeeeeease ;)

My new web page
01 October, 2002

Today my dear master gave me a new site. Now I'm sexy!

Released my new version 1.0
25 September, 2002

This release starts my 1.x series.

More than a year of almost-monthly updates, and the 0.x series provided me a nice set of features, as Command Line and Web interface, TOC handling, numbering titles and lists, STDIN/STDOUT facilities, vim/emacs syntax files and seven supported target formats.

For the incoming 1.x series, I'll try to spread myself out, providing a nice GUI, extensive documentation, mailing list, user base, Unix/Windows/Mac full compatibility and including more targets (as tex, rtf and xhtml).

On this 1.0 release I'm already at full speed ahead, with a new suit (Graphical Tk Interface) and compatibility with Unix/Windows/Mac, handling line breaks and other platform specific issues. Fortunately, now my master can reach Linux, Windows 2000, Cygwin and MacOS 8.6 systems for testing me.