Docutils Link List

Author: Felix Wiemann
Contact: Felix.Wiemann@ososo.de
Revision: 4020
Date: 2005-11-08
Copyright: This document has been placed in the public domain.

Contents

  • Users
  • API Developers
  • Core Developers

This document contains links users of Docutils and reStructuredText may find useful, listed in no particular order. Many of the project 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.

Users

This section contains links which are interesting for all users of Docutils. All projects listed here are usable by end users in some way, however please do not expect all of them to run straight out of the box.

  • For Wikis, please see the FAQ entry about Wikis.
  • For Blogs (Weblogs), please see the FAQ entry about Blogs.
  • Alberto Berti is developing an OpenDocument writer.
  • xml2rst, an XSLT stylesheet written by Stefan Merten, converts XML dumps of the document tree (e.g. created with rst2xml.py) back to reStructuredText.
  • xhtml2rest, written by Antonios Christofides, is a simple utility to convert XHTML to reStructuredText.
  • 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.
  • rst2chm, written by Oliver Rutherfurd, generates Microsoft HTML Help files from reStructuredText files.
  • rest2web, by Michael Foord, is a tool for creating web sites with reStructuredText.
  • ZReST, by Richard Jones, is a "ReStructuredText Document for Zope" application that is complete and ready to install.
  • The Docutils interface to PythonPoint, also by Richard Jones, produces PDF presentations using ReportLabs.
  • Engelbert Gruber has begun a ManPage Writer.
  • Oliver Rutherfurd has begun a DocBook Writer.
  • Gunnar Schwant's DocFactory is a wxPython GUI application for Docutils.
  • Patrick O'Brien has taken over the OpenOffice.org Writer.
  • Bill Bumgarner has written a simple HTML writer that doesn't rely on CSS (stylesheets).
  • Beni Cherniavsky has written a generic preprocessing module for roles and/or directives and built preprocessors for TeX math for both LaTeX and HTML output on top of it.
  • Beni Cherniavsky maintains a Makefile for driving Docutils, hoping to handle everything one might do with Docutils.

API Developers

This section contains links which are primarily interesting for developers who use the Docutils API from within their own applications.

  • Nabu, written by Martin Blais, is a publishing system which extracts information from reStructuredText documents and stores it in a database. Python knowledge is required to write extractor functions (see Writing an Extractor) and to retrieve the data from the database again.
  • There is a pickle writer, written by Martin Blais.

Core Developers

Links primarily interesting for developers who work with the Docutils code base.

  • PySource, by Tony Ibbs, is an experimental Python source Reader. There is some related code in David Goodger's sandbox (pysource_reader) and a Python Source Reader document.

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