PARSEWIKI(1)

📦 version 0.4.3, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 PARSEWIKI 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the parsewiki glow-up guide ✨ this is the section 1 user-commands manual page, and she's here to turn your boring little marked-up text files into actual ✨formats✨. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

parsewiki — transform marked text into HTML, XHTML, Docbook or LaTeX 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

parsewiki [OPTION]... [FILE]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so, this manual page gives you the quick rundown of the parsewiki command. it was written for the Debian distribution bc the original program literally does not ship with a manual page — not me filling in the gaps, but yes, me filling in the gaps 💅

parsewiki is a program that transforms a text file written in a very minimal Wiki style syntax into other formats, including HTML, XHTML, Docbook and LaTeX. it's giving one tiny file, four whole destinies, main character energy fr fr 👑

🫶 if you wanna actually learn the parsewiki syntax itself, go read the file /usr/share/doc/parsewiki/doc/manual-en.txt — that's where the description lives, bestie. i'm just the tour guide.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -f, --format=FORMAT — picks your output format, and it's gotta be one of html, xhtml, docbook, latex. default is html ✨
  • -T, --title=TITLE — sets the Title. that's it, that's the whole job 🎀
  • -t, --template=FILE — points at a File with a template to use instead of the standard one. customise your look, periodt 💖
  • -c, --copyright — displays the copyright and copying permission statement. legal girlies rise 🫶
  • -h, --help — shows this usage summary. the classic "help me bestie" flag 🙈

so about that FILE situation — FILE is a simple text file with wiki formating syntax. the result gets sent to the Standard Output 🌈 and if you don't give it a FILE at all? no worries, input gets taken from the Standard Input. flexible queen.

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

look at her go:

$ parsewiki myfile.wiki
$ cat file.txt | parsewiki -fdocbook --title="An Example" > file.xml

first one: basic, iconic, just vibing. second one: piping in, picking docbook, titling it, and redirecting out to a file. we love a multi-step slay 🔥

💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? report it to <villate@gnu.org>. do NOT just suffer in silence, bestie 😭

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Sergio Talens-Oliag <sto@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). we stan a generous icon 🌸

anyway, that's the whole page!! this beauty is from parsewiki 0.4.3, dated July 2003, and you just read the PARSEWIKI(1) page 💖✨🎀 bye bestie, go parse something gorgeous 🦋

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