Author: | Lea Wiemann, the Docutils team |
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Contact: | docutils-develop@lists.sourceforge.net |
Revision: | 8025 |
Date: | 2017-02-06 |
Copyright: | This document has been placed in the public domain. |
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This document contains links users of Docutils and reStructuredText may find useful. Many of the projects listed here are hosted in the Docutils Sandbox. If you have something to publish, you can get write access, too!
The most current version of this link list can always be found at http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/links.html.
Advanced text editors with reStructuredText support, IDEs, and docutils GUIs:
Emacs rst mode.
Vim:
Gnome's gedit offers syntax highlighting and a reST preview pane.
Latest version of the plugin is available from bittner @ github (See also: Gedit third party plugins).
A BBEdit/TextWrangler language module for editing reST documents.
Gunnar Schwant's DocFactory is a wxPython GUI application for Docutils.
ReSTedit by Bill Bumgarner is a Docutils GUI for Mac OS X.
Leo is an outliner, written in Python using PyQt. It can be used as IDE for literal programming, as a filing cabinet holding any kind of data and as document editor with outlines containing reStructuredText markup.
NoTex is a browser-based reStructuredText editor with syntax highlighting and PDF/HTML export functionality using Sphinx.
rsted is a "simple online editor for reStructuredText on Flask". You can try it on http://rst.ninjs.org/
Convert reStructuredText to other formats:
The Sphinx Python Documentation Generator by Georg Brandl was originally created to translate the Python documentation, and is now used by a wide choice of projects.
It can generate complete web sites (interlinked and indexed HTML pages), ePub, PDF, and others [1] from a set of rst source files.
[1] | see http://sphinx-doc.org/config.html#options-for-epub-output |
The Nikola static site generator, uses reStructuredText by default.
Pelican is a static site generator (mainly for blogs). Articles/pages can be written in reStructuredText or Markdown[2] format.
rst2ht by Oliver Rutherfurd, converts reStructuredText to an .ht template, for use with ht2html.
htmlnav by Gunnar Schwant, is an HTML writer which supports navigation bars.
rest2web, by Michael Foord, is a tool for creating web sites with reStructuredText.
rst2chm by Oliver Rutherfurd, generates Microsoft HTML Help files from reStructuredText files.
html4strict produces XHTML that strictly conforms to the XHTML 1.0 specification.
html4trans produces XHTML conforming to the version 1.0 Transitional DTD that contains enough formatting information to be viewed by a lightweight HTML browser without CSS support.
A simple HTML writer by Bill Bumgarner that doesn't rely on CSS (stylesheets).
Convert other formats to reStructuredText:
[2] | (1, 2, 3, 4) Markdown is another lightwight markup language. See also documentation on Common markup for Markdown and reStructuredText. |
Extend the reStructuredText syntax or the features of Docutils. More extensions are in the Docutils Sandbox.