dg/texy

This package is abandoned and no longer maintained. The author suggests using the texy/texy package instead.

Texy converts plain text in easy to read Texy syntax into structurally valid (X)HTML. It supports adding of images, links, nested lists, tables and has full support for CSS. Texy supports hyphenation of long words (which reflects language rules), clickable emails and URL (emails are obfuscated again

v3.2.8 2026-02-23 02:30 UTC

Requires

• php: 8.1 - 8.5

Requires (Dev)

• latte/latte: ^3.0.14
• nette/phpstan-rules: ^1.0
• nette/tester: ^2.5
• phpstan/extension-installer: ^1.4@stable
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.1@stable
• tracy/tracy: ^2.9

Conflicts

• latte/latte: >=3.0.0 <3.0.14

Replaces

• dg/texy: *

BSD-3-Clause, GPL-2.0-only, GPL-3.0-only

• David Grudl

• text
• markdown
• html
• texy
• wiki
• plain text
• markup language
• textile

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-02-23 02:30 UTC

README

Texy is a text-to-HTML engine for lightweight markup languages, written in PHP. It turns human-readable plain text into structurally valid HTML – complete with images, links, nested lists, and tables – no knowledge of HTML required.

Above all, Texy is an engine. It ships with its own rich, easy-to-read markup, but nothing about that syntax is set in stone: every rule can be switched on or off, redefined, or extended with your own. You can reshape Texy to speak a different dialect entirely – even Markdown.

And Texy is a typographer at heart. It swaps straight quotes for typographically correct ones, hyphens for dashes, the letter x for the dimension sign, and applies many more refinements so your text reads like it was professionally typeset.

Install Texy via Composer:

composer require texy/texy

Texy requires PHP 8.1 or higher.

Usage

$texy = new Texy;
$html = $texy->process($text);

For untrusted input, always enable safe mode, which restricts the output to a safe subset of HTML:

Texy\Configurator::safeMode($texy);
$html = $texy->process($text);

Documentation and Examples

The full manual is on the homepage https://texy.nette.org. The docs/ directory holds the reference for using and extending Texy:

• Syntax reference – complete reference of the Texy markup language, including syntaxes that are disabled by default
• Configuration – all configuration options, the Configurator presets, and security (safe mode)
• Custom handlers – changing the behavior of existing constructs via element and notification handlers
• Custom syntax – adding brand-new markup constructs

The examples/ directory contains ready-to-run demos.

Support Me

Do you like Texy? Are you looking forward to the new features?

Thank you!