========================== Docutils_ Hacker's Guide ========================== :Author: Felix Wiemann :Contact: Felix.Wiemann@ososo.de :Revision: $Revision: 4163 $ :Date: $Date: 2005-12-09 05:21:34 +0100 (Fri, 09 Dec 2005) $ :Copyright: This document has been placed in the public domain. :Abstract: This is the introduction to Docutils for all persons who want to extend Docutils in some way. :Prerequisites: You have used reStructuredText_ and played around with the `Docutils front-end tools`_ before. Some (basic) Python knowledge is certainly helpful (though not necessary, strictly speaking). .. _Docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/ .. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html .. _Docutils front-end tools: ../user/tools.html .. contents:: Overview of the Docutils Architecture ===================================== To give you an understanding of the Docutils architecture, we'll dive right into the internals using a practical example. Consider the following reStructuredText file:: My *favorite* language is Python_. .. _Python: http://www.python.org/ Using the ``rst2html.py`` front-end tool, you would get an HTML output which looks like this:: [uninteresting HTML code removed]
My favorite language is Python.