---
name: "parsewiki"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "parsewiki"
version: "0.4.3-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/parsewiki"
---

# parsewiki(1)

transform marked text into HTML, XHTML, Docbook or LaTeX

## NAME

parsewiki - transform marked text into HTML, XHTML, Docbook or LaTeX

## SYNOPSIS

**parsewiki** \[*OPTION*\]... \[*FILE*\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **parsewiki** command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**parsewiki** is a program that transform a text file with a very minimal Wiki style syntax into other formats, including HTML, XHTML, Docbook and LaTeX.

See the file */usr/share/doc/parsewiki/doc/manual-en.txt* for a description of the parsewiki syntax.

## OPTIONS

- **-f**, **--format**=*FORMAT*

  Output format; one of html, xhtml, docbook, latex. (default html)

- **-T**, **--title**=*TITLE*

  Title.

- **-t**, **--template**=*FILE*

  File with a template to use instead of the standard.

- **-c**, **--copyright**

  Display copyright and copying permission statement.

- **-h**, **--help**

  Show this usage summary.

FILE is a simple text file with wiki formating syntax. The result will be sent to the Standard Output. If FILE is not given, input will be taken from the Standard Input.

## EXAMPLES

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

## BUGS

Report bugs to \<villate@gnu.org\>.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Sergio Talens-Oliag \<sto@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).