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TEXTILE → DOKUWIKI
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Fast, secure TEXTILE to DOKUWIKI conversion. No registration required.
Situation. TEXTILE is a document format oriented around a particular office suite or publishing pipeline. Solution: a DOKUWIKI, produced below. Converting TEXTILE to DOKUWIKI online saves installing office suites you use once a year. Upload the document, let the server render it through the same pipeline large publishers use, and download a polished DOKUWIKI that keeps its original structure and typography. Technical note: TEXTILE is a document format oriented around a particular office suite or publishing pipeline. Compare that with DOKUWIKI is a document format oriented around a particular office suite or publishing pipeline.
Textile Markup
Source formatTextile is a lightweight markup language that generates HTML from a human-readable syntax. It was popularized by the Textpattern CMS and the Redmine project management tool, offering a cleaner writing experience than raw HTML.
DokuWiki Markup
Target formatDokuWiki markup is the wiki syntax used by the DokuWiki engine, a popular flat-file wiki that requires no database. Its syntax is designed for simplicity, storing all content as plain text files with intuitive formatting conventions.
Why convert TEXTILE to DOKUWIKI
The driver for a TEXTILE to DOKUWIKI conversion is almost always the downstream audience: the editor, archivist, signer or reader who expects a DOKUWIKI. Doing the conversion in a proper rendering pipeline, rather than hoping the receiving tool will figure it out, avoids layout drift and font substitutions.
HOW TO CONVERT
TEXTILE → DOKUWIKI
Provide the document
Select a TEXTILE file. Very large documents (100+ pages) may take a few extra seconds to render completely.
Render to DOKUWIKI
LibreOffice plus supporting filters translate the TEXTILE into a fully-formed DOKUWIKI with no structural drift.
Save the result
The converted DOKUWIKI streams back over HTTPS; open in the target application to verify formatting.
Common Use Cases
Share across platforms
Send DOKUWIKI files to anyone without worrying about whether they have the right software for TEXTILE.
Embed in documents
Drop DOKUWIKI output into Word, Google Docs, PowerPoint, Notion or a website without conversion warnings.
Optimize size
DOKUWIKI often produces smaller files than TEXTILE for web, email and storage.
Archive & future-proof
Store in a widely-supported format that will still open on future operating systems without legacy plugins.
TEXTILE vs DOKUWIKI — Strengths and limitations
What each format does best, and where it falls short.
TEXTILE Strengths
- More expressive than Markdown in classical usage (tables, footnotes, classes).
- Mature implementation in RedCloth (Ruby), php-textile, js-textile.
- Core format of Redmine — millions of daily users.
- Clean human-readable syntax.
Limitations
- Market share decimated by Markdown since the mid-2000s.
- Not as widely supported outside the Ruby/Rails ecosystem.
- No CommonMark-style spec — implementations differ on edge cases.
DOKUWIKI Strengths
- No database — just flat files.
- Easy syntax.
- Git-friendly.
- Simple self-hosting.
Limitations
- Scales poorly past ~10 000 pages.
- Smaller community than MediaWiki.
- Limited standardization.
TEXTILE vs DOKUWIKI — Technical specifications
Side-by-side comparison of the technical details.
TEXTILE
- MIME type
- text/x-textile
- Extensions
- .textile
- Implementations
- RedCloth (Ruby), php-textile, js-textile
- Primary users
- Redmine, Textpattern, early Rails
- Encoding
- UTF-8
DOKUWIKI
- MIME type
- text/x-dokuwiki
- Extension
- .dokuwiki, .txt (stored)
- Native engine
- DokuWiki (PHP)
| Specification | TEXTILE | DOKUWIKI |
|---|---|---|
| MIME type | text/x-textile | text/x-dokuwiki |
| Extensions | .textile | — |
| Implementations | RedCloth (Ruby), php-textile, js-textile | — |
| Primary users | Redmine, Textpattern, early Rails | — |
| Encoding | UTF-8 | — |
| Extension | — | .dokuwiki, .txt (stored) |
| Native engine | — | DokuWiki (PHP) |
TEXTILE vs DOKUWIKI — Typical file sizes
Approximate file sizes for common scenarios.
TEXTILE
- Blog post 3-30 KB
- Redmine wiki page 5-50 KB
DOKUWIKI
- Typical wiki page 2-50 KB
Quality & Compatibility
The conversion preserves document structure rather than pixel-perfect rendering: a paragraph in TEXTILE is a paragraph in DOKUWIKI, not a bitmap snapshot. That means you can still edit and search the DOKUWIKI. If you need exact visual fidelity (for legal or print workflows), export to PDF as the final step.
Tips for Best Results
- Run a spell-check in the DOKUWIKI after conversion — occasionally hyphenation or language tagging shifts and typos become invisible to the original checker.
- Include fallback generic fonts (sans-serif, serif) in your style definitions so the DOKUWIKI degrades gracefully when a font is missing on a viewer device.
- For archive-quality output, export to PDF/A after converting to DOKUWIKI; this locks the document against future rendering drift.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, as long as the fonts are standard (system fonts or common office fonts like Arial, Calibri, Times, Helvetica). Custom corporate fonts survive if they are embedded in the source document; otherwise the conversion substitutes the closest available match, which can shift line breaks by a character or two.
Yes. Inline images are embedded into the DOKUWIKI at full resolution, editable tables become native DOKUWIKI tables, and hyperlinks keep their URLs. Complex features unique to TEXTILE — macros, form fields, track-changes — are mapped where an equivalent exists in DOKUWIKI and flattened into static content otherwise.
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