A mark-up-to-doc converter or static document generator is software that generates a document from a markup language text.
Markup-to-doc tools:
- Document converter
- Documentation generator
- Static code generator
- Publishing system
List of document converters
Markup-to-doc converters featured on this post:
- Pandoc
- 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.
The document conversion functionality of Quarto publishing system is built on top of Pandoc.
List of documentation generators
Read the post software documentation generation.
Documentation generator:
- Sphinx
- Doxygen
Sphinx
Sphinx is a documentation generation software that converts markup language reStructuredText (natively) or the MyST-markdown variant of Markdown (using the MyST extension) into structured and linked files.
Sphinx is FOSS under a BSD license.
Sphinx is mainly used for scientific documentation.
It is written in Python and used by the Python community.
List of static site generators
A static code generator (SSG) generates a multi-page website.
Static code generators:
- MkDocs
- Hugo
- JupyterBook
- Docusaurus
MkDocs
MkDocs generate a static site. It is scientific.
It uses Markdown markup language as a source and YAML for metadata.
Hugo
Hugo is FOSS.
Publishing system
Publishing system:
- Quarto
Quarto
Quarto is a FOSS scientific and technical publishing system. It uses the Pandoc Markdown markup language. It uses YAML for metadata.
Quarto is built on top of Pandoc for document conversion.