A mark-up-to-doc converter or static document generator is software that generates a document from a markup language text.
List of markup-to-doc converters
Markup-to-doc converters featured on this post:
- Pandoc
- Sphinx
- MkDocs
- Quarto
Markup language converters may be used to write a document once and then export to different formats.
Pandoc
Pandoc converts from different file formats (for example, it converts from LaTeX to EPUB, that is XHTML-based.
It is FOSS.
Sphinx
Sphinx is a software that converts markup language reStructuredText into other formats.
Sphink is a document generator software for scientific documentation. It generates documents from the reStructureLanguage markup language.
Sphinx is FOSS under a BSD license.
It is written in Python and used by the Python community.
MkDocs
MkDocs is scientific.
It uses Markdown markup language as a source and YAML for metada.
Quarto
Quarto is a FOSS scientific and technical publishing system. It uses the Pandoc Markdown markup language. It uses YAML for metadata.