Author:	Lea Wiemann, the Docutils team
Contact:	docutils-develop@lists.sourceforge.net
Revision:	10148
Date:	$Date: 2025-05-27 08:17:22 +0200 (Di, 27. Mai 2025) $ [1]
Copyright:	This document has been placed in the public domain.

Extensions

Drop-in components and front-end tools for Docutils that extend the reStructuredText syntax or feature set.

Import

There are more extensions in the Docutils Sandbox.

Editors and IDEs with reStructuredText support.

Eclipse IDE with ReST Editor plug-in.
Emacs extensible text editor with rst mode.
Geany lightweight IDE.
gedit with the gedit-reST-plugin.
JED programmers editor with rst mode.
Leo PIM, IDE and outliner (see creating documents from outlines).
Notepad++ with reStructuredText_NPP (basic syntax highlighting).
ReSTedit --- Docutils GUI for Mac OS X.
ReText --- editor for markup languages with live preview.
RSTPad --- reStructuredText editor with live preview.
Vim with
- rest.vim reStructuredText syntax mode,
- VST (Vim reStructuredText) plugin,
- VOoM two-pane text outliner, or
- Riv: Notes and wiki in rST.
Visual Studio Code with vscode-restructuredtext Language Support extension.

Applications using Docutils/reStructuredText and helper applications.

Alternative implementations to convert between reStructuredText and other formats.

Pandoc --- universal document converter written in Haskell. Can read/write reStructuredText, DocBook, EPUB, HTML, LaTeX, docx, Markdown, ODT, and more.
Laika --- Site and E-book Generator and Customizable Text Markup Transformer for sbt, Scala and Scala.js.
Nim --- system programming language. Supports Nim-flavoured reStructuredText with the rst, rstast, and rstgen modules. The Nim compiler provides the nim rst2html and nim rst2latex sub-commands.
RST --- PHP library to parse reStructuredText documents.
Text-Restructured --- a set of Perl modules to parse reStructuredText documents and output them in various formats.
xml2rst --- an XSLT stylesheet that converts Docutils XML back to reStructuredText.

Sphinx extends the ReStructuredText syntax to better support the documentation of Software projects.

Sphinx Extensions allow automatic testing of code snippets, inclusion of docstrings from Python modules (API docs), and more.
Trac, a wiki and issue tracking system, supports reStructuredText as alternative wiki markup. This includes support for TracLinks via a :trac: role.
PyLit provides a bidirectional text ↔ code converter for Literate Programming with reStructuredText.

There is native support for slide shows with S5.

InkSlide quick and easy presentations using Inkscape. InkSlide uses reStructuredText for markup, although it renders only a subset of rST.
landslide generates HTML5 slideshows from markdown, ReST, or textile.
marianoguerra/rst2html5 can produce slides using HTML5 + deck.js, impress.js, or reveal.js.
Pandoc can export to various slide show formats (LaTeX Beamer, PowerPoint, Slidy, S5, ...).
rst2odp --- rst to LibreOffice impress.