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+{ pkgs, depot, lib, ... }:
+
+{ fmt ? null
+, passthru ? { }
+, ...
+}@args:
+
+let
+  inherit (depot.nix) getBins utils;
+
+  bins = getBins pkgs.lowdown [
+    "lowdown"
+  ] // getBins pkgs.mandoc [
+    "mandoc"
+  ] // getBins pkgs.gnused [
+    "sed"
+  ];
+
+  actions = {
+    mdoc = ''
+      ${bins.mandoc} -T utf8 "${thing}" > "$out"
+    '';
+
+    # Use lowdown's terminal target, but strip all ANSI SGR escape sequences
+    markdown = ''
+      ${bins.lowdown} -Tterm "${thing}" \
+      | ${bins.sed} -e 's|\\x1b\\[[;0-9]*m||g' \
+      > "$out"
+    '';
+
+    plain = ''
+      cp --reflink=auto "${thing}" "$out"
+    '';
+  };
+
+  thingType = builtins.head (
+    builtins.filter (x: x != null) (
+      builtins.map (t: if args ? ${t} then t else null) (
+        builtins.attrNames actions
+      )
+    )
+  );
+
+  thing = args.${thingType};
+  name = args.name or utils.storePathName thing;
+in
+
+pkgs.runCommand name
+{
+  inherit passthru;
+}
+  (
+    actions.${thingType} + lib.optionalString (fmt != null) ''
+      fmt -w "${lib.escapeShellArg (toString fmt)}" "$out"
+    ''
+  )