TEXTILE(1)

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version 2.13 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

💖 TEXTILE(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the textile page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation — it's the little command that takes Textile markup and turns it into HTML, and yes it's as iconic as it sounds ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

textile — translate Textile markup language to HTML 🧚

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

# translate a text file to HTML, print to screen
textile file.txt

# translate a snippet of text to HTML
echo "hi there" | textile

# translate a text file, output to a file
textile -outfile out.html file.txt

# translate a text file, output to a legal full HTML file
# (By default, textile doesn't output <html>, <head> and <body> tags)
textile -fullpage -outfile out.html file.txt

# translate a text file, output to a legal full HTML file, add title
# (-title implies -fullpage)
textile -title "My <blink>133t</blink> web page" -outfile out.html file.txt

no cap, those five examples are literally the whole vibe check of this tool. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically this program uses Brad Choate's Text::Textile module to convert text written in the Textile markup language into HTML 🎀

like, for example, it will convert "_hi_ there" to "<p><em>hi</em> there</p>" — the way that just works 😭💖

Textile was developed by Dean Allen of <http://textism.com> and the whole point is this: you can quickly write simple (or not so simple) text that

  • (a) can be read as is, and
  • (b) turns into readable HTML 🌈

it's giving "write it cute, ship it cute" and honestly? obsessed 👑

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Amir Karger, akarger@cpan.org 💌

also, credit where credit is due fr fr:

  • Brad Choate built Text::Textile
  • Dean Allen of Textism.com developed Textile

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

ok that's the whole page bestie, go forth and mark up your little heart out 🦋💖

this was perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, and the page is TEXTILE(1) — mwah, sending you a kiss, periodt 💅✨

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