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Lea Wiemann |
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LeWiemann@gmail.com |
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2009-09-21 |
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This document contains links users of Docutils and reStructuredText
may find useful. 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.
Editors with reStructuredText support and docutils GUIs:
Convert reStructuredText to other formats:
- rst2pdf (reportlab) is a tool to go
directly from restructured text to PDF, via reportlab. No LaTeX installation is
required.
- rst2pdf (pdflatex) by Martin Blais
is a minimal front end producing LaTeX, compiling the LaTeX file, getting
the produced output to the destination location and finally deleting all
the messy temporary files that this process generates.
- rst2pdf (rubber) is
a front end for the generation of PDF documents from a reStructuredText
source via LaTeX in one step cleaning up intermediate files. It uses the
rubber Python wrapper
for LaTeX and friends.
- py.rest from the Codespeak py Lib scripts converts
reStructuredText files to HTML and PDF (cleaning up the intermediate
latex files). Similar to buildhtml.py, it looks recursively for
.txt files in the given PATHS.
- odtwriter the Open Document Format writer developed by Dave Kuhlman
produces files that can be processed with OpenOffice and Abiword.
Since version 0.5, the odtwriter it is part of the Docutils core.
- 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.
- 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).
- Pandoc is a document converter that can write Markdown, reStructuredText,
HTML, LaTeX, RTF, DocBook XML, and S5.
- restxsl by Michael Alyn Miller, lets you transform reStructuredText
documents into XML/XHTML files using XSLT stylesheets.
- An XSLT script by Ladislav Lhotka enables reStructuredText annotations
to be included in RELAG NG XML schemas.
- ManPage Writer by Engelbert Gruber.
- DocBook Writer by Oliver Rutherfurd.
- 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.
- The pickle writer by Martin Blais pickles the document tree to a binary
string. Later unpickling will allow you to publish with other Writers. .
Convert other formats to reStructuredText:
- sxw2rest, by Trent W. Buck, converts StarOffice XML Writer (SXW)
files to reStructuredText.
- 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.
- Sphinx includes a LaTeX to Rst converter in its source code
(trimmed to importing the old Python docs).
- Pandoc can read Markdown and (subsets of) HTML, and LaTeX and export to
(amongst others) reStructuredText.
- 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.
Extend the reStructuredText syntax or the features of Docutils.
More extensions are in the Docutils Sandbox.
- Jens J. Mortensen developed LaTeX math for reST, which writes to
LaTeX or to MathML.
- 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.
- The ASCII art to SVG converter (aafigure) developed by
Chris Liechti can parse ASCII art images, embedded in reST documents and
output an image. This would mean that simple illustrations could be
embedded as ASCII art in the reST source and still look nice when
converted to e.g. HTML