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11 .. title:: Docutils Links
15 This document contains links users of Docutils and reStructuredText
16 may find useful. Many of the project
17 listed here are hosted in the `Docutils Sandbox`_. If you have
18 something to publish, you can get write access, too!
20 The most current version of this link list can always be found at
21 http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/links.html.
27 Editors with reStructuredText support and docutils GUIs:
29 * Emacs `rst mode <http://docutils.sf.net/docutils/tools/editors/emacs>`__.
31 * `reStructuredText syntax highlighting mode
32 <http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=973>`__ for vim.
34 * `VST <http://skawina.eu.org/mikolaj/vst.html>`__ (Vim reStructured Text)
35 is a plugin for Vim7 with folding.
37 * `VOoM <http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2657>`__
38 is a plugin for Vim that emulates two-pane outliner.
39 Version 4.0b2 added support for reStructuredText.
41 * `rst mode <http://jedmodes.sf.net/mode/rst/>`__ for the
42 `JED <http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/>`__ programmers editor.
44 * `reStructuredText editor plug-in for Eclipse
45 <http://resteditor.sf.net/>`__
47 * Gunnar Schwant's DocFactory_ is a wxPython GUI application for
50 * ReSTedit_ by Bill Bumgarner is a Docutils GUI for Mac OS X.
56 Convert reStructuredText to other formats:
61 * `rst2pdf (reportlab)
62 <http://rst2pdf.googlecode.com>`_ is a tool to go
63 directly from restructured text to PDF, via `reportlab
64 <http://www.reportlab.org/rl_toolkit.html>`_. No LaTeX installation is
68 <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/blais/rst2pdf/>`_ by Martin Blais
69 is a minimal front end producing LaTeX, compiling the LaTeX file, getting
70 the produced output to the destination location and finally deleting all
71 the messy temporary files that this process generates.
74 <http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/rst2pdf/README.html>`_ is
75 a front end for the generation of PDF documents from a reStructuredText
76 source via LaTeX in one step cleaning up intermediate files. It uses the
77 `rubber <http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/~beffara/soft/rubber/>`_ Python wrapper
78 for LaTeX and friends.
80 * **py.rest** from the Codespeak `py Lib scripts`_ converts
81 reStructuredText files to HTML and PDF (cleaning up the intermediate
82 latex files). Similar to ``buildhtml.py``, it looks recursively for
83 .txt files in the given PATHS.
88 * odtwriter_ the Open Document Format writer developed by Dave Kuhlman
89 produces files that can be processed with OpenOffice and Abiword.
90 Since version 0.5, the odtwriter_ it is part of the Docutils_ core.
96 * The Sphinx_ Python Documentation Generator by Georg Brandl was originally
97 created to translate the Python_ documentation, and is now `used by
98 <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/examples.html>`__ a wide choice of projects.
100 Generates web sites (interlinked and indexed HTML pages) and/or PDF
101 from a set of rst source files.
103 * rst2ht_ by Oliver Rutherfurd, converts reStructuredText to an .ht
104 template, for use with ht2html_.
106 * htmlnav_ by Gunnar Schwant, is an HTML writer which supports navigation
109 * rest2web_, by Michael Foord, is a tool for creating web sites with
112 * rst2chm_ by Oliver Rutherfurd, generates Microsoft HTML Help files from
113 reStructuredText files.
115 * `html4strict <http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/html4strict/>`__
116 produces XHTML that strictly conforms to the XHTML 1.0 specification.
118 * `html4trans <http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/html4trans/>`__
119 produces XHTML conforming to the version 1.0 Transitional DTD that
120 contains enough formatting information to be viewed by a lightweight HTML
121 browser without CSS support.
123 * A `simple HTML writer`_ by Bill Bumgarner that doesn't rely on CSS
130 * Pandoc_ is a document converter that can write Markdown, reStructuredText,
131 HTML, LaTeX, RTF, DocBook XML, and S5.
133 * restxsl_ by Michael Alyn Miller, lets you transform reStructuredText
134 documents into XML/XHTML files using XSLT stylesheets.
136 * An `XSLT script`_ by Ladislav Lhotka enables reStructuredText annotations
137 to be included in RELAG NG XML schemas.
139 * `ManPage Writer`_ by Engelbert Gruber.
141 * `DocBook Writer`_ by Oliver Rutherfurd.
143 * Nabu_, written by Martin Blais, is a publishing system which
144 extracts information from reStructuredText documents and stores it
145 in a database. Python knowledge is required to write extractor
146 functions (see `Writing an Extractor`_) and to retrieve the data
147 from the database again.
149 * The `pickle writer`_ by Martin Blais pickles the document tree to a binary
150 string. Later unpickling will allow you to publish with other Writers.
153 * The `Texinfo Writer`_, by Jon Waltman converts reStructuredText to
154 Texinfo, the documentation format used by the GNU project and the
155 Emacs text editor. Texinfo can be used to produce multiple output
156 formats, including HTML, PDF, and Info.
162 Convert other formats to reStructuredText:
164 * sxw2rest_, by Trent W. Buck, converts StarOffice XML Writer (SXW)
165 files to reStructuredText.
167 * xml2rst_, an XSLT stylesheet written by Stefan Merten, converts XML
168 dumps of the document tree (e.g. created with rst2xml.py) back to
171 * xhtml2rest_, written by Antonios Christofides, is a simple utility
172 to convert XHTML to reStructuredText.
174 * Sphinx_ includes a `LaTeX to Rst converter
175 <http://svn.python.org/projects/doctools/converter/>`__ in its source code
176 (trimmed to importing the old Python docs).
178 * Pandoc_ can read Markdown and (subsets of) HTML, and LaTeX and export to
179 (amongst others) reStructuredText.
181 * PySource_, by Tony Ibbs, is an experimental Python source Reader.
182 There is some related code in David Goodger's sandbox
183 (pysource_reader_) and a `Python Source Reader`_ document.
189 Extend the reStructuredText syntax or the features of Docutils.
190 More extensions are in the `Docutils Sandbox`_.
192 * Jens J. Mortensen developed `LaTeX math for reST`_, which writes to
193 LaTeX or to MathML. It's included with Docutils since 0.8 (2010-11-05).
195 * Beni Cherniavsky has written a generic `preprocessing module`_ for
196 roles and/or directives and built preprocessors for TeX math for
197 both LaTeX and HTML output on top of it.
199 * Beni Cherniavsky maintains a Makefile_ for driving Docutils, hoping
200 to handle everything one might do with Docutils.
202 * The `ASCII art to SVG converter`_ (aafigure) developed by
203 Chris Liechti can parse ASCII art images, embedded in reST documents and
204 output an image. This would mean that simple illustrations could be
205 embedded as ASCII art in the reST source and still look nice when
206 converted to e.g. HTML
208 * zot4rst_ by Erik Hetzner is an extension that allows users to write reST
209 documents using citations from a Zotero_ library.
214 Applications using docutils/reStructuredText and helper applications.
216 * For Wikis, please see the `FAQ entry about Wikis`_.
218 * For Blogs (Weblogs), please see the `FAQ entry about Blogs`_.
223 * Sphinx_ extends the ReStructuredText syntax to better support the
224 documentation of Software (and other) *projects* (but other documents
225 can be written with it too).
227 Since version 2.6, the `Python documentation`_ is based on
228 reStructuredText and Sphinx.
230 * Trac_, a project management and bug/issue tracking system, supports
231 `using reStructuredText
232 <http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/wiki/WikiRestructuredText>`__ as an
233 alternative to wiki markup.
235 * PyLit_ provides a bidirectional text <--> code converter for *literate
236 programming with reStructuredText*.
238 * If you are developing a Qt app, rst2qhc_ lets you generate the whole help
239 automatically from restructured text. That includes keywords, TOC,
240 multiple manuals per project, filters, project file, collection project
247 * Plone_ and Zope_ both support reStructuredText markup.
248 * ZReST_, by Richard Jones, is a "ReStructuredText Document for Zope_"
249 application that is complete and ready to install.
254 * `native support for S5 <slide-shows.s5.html>`_;
256 * The `PythonPoint interface`_ by Richard Jones produces PDF
257 presentations using ReportLabs' PythonPoint_.
259 * InkSlide_ quick and easy presentations using Inkscape_. InkSlide uses
260 reStructuredText for markup, although it renders only a subset of rst.
262 .. _Docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
263 .. _FAQ entry about Wikis: http://docutils.sf.net/FAQ.html#are-there-any-wikis-that-use-restructuredtext-syntax
264 .. _FAQ entry about Blogs: http://docutils.sf.net/FAQ.html#are-there-any-weblog-blog-projects-that-use-restructuredtext-syntax
265 .. _py Lib scripts: http://codespeak.net/py/dist/bin.html
266 .. _PyLit: http://pylit.berlios.de
267 .. _Pandoc: http://sophos.berkeley.edu/macfarlane/pandoc/
268 .. _restxsl: http://www.strangeGizmo.com/products/restxsl/
269 .. _XSLT script: http://www.cesnet.cz/doc/techzpravy/2006/rngrest/
270 .. _ReSTedit: http://www.friday.com/bbum/index.php?s=restedit
271 .. _ASCII art to SVG converter: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/cliechti/aafigure/
272 .. _LaTeX math for reST:
273 http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/jensj/latex_math/
274 .. _sxw2rest: http://twb.ath.cx/~twb/darcs/sxw2rest/
275 .. _xml2rst: http://www.merten-home.de/FreeSoftware/xml2rst/index.html
276 .. _rst2ht: http://www.rutherfurd.net/articles/rst-ht2html.html
277 .. _ht2html: http://ht2html.sourceforge.net/
278 .. _htmlnav: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/gschwant/htmlnav/
279 .. _Inkscape: http://inkscape.org/
280 .. _InkSlide: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InkSlide
281 .. _xhtml2rest: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/wiemann/xhtml2rest/
282 .. _rst2chm: http://www.rutherfurd.net/software/rst2chm/
283 .. _rest2web: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/rest2web/
284 .. _Docutils Sandbox: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/README.html
285 .. _ZReST: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/richard/ZReST/
286 .. _PySource: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/tibs/pysource/
287 .. _pysource_reader: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/davidg/pysource_reader/
288 .. _Python Source Reader: http://docutils.sf.net/docs/dev/pysource.html
289 .. _Manpage Writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/manpage-writer/
290 .. _ReportLabs/PDF Writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/dreamcatcher/rlpdf/
291 .. _DocBook Writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/oliverr/docbook/
292 .. _DocFactory: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/gschwant/docfactory/doc/
293 .. _odtwriter: http://docutils.sf.net/docs/user/odt.html
294 .. _simple HTML writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/bbum/DocArticle/
295 .. _preprocessing module: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/cben/rolehack/
296 .. _Makefile: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/cben/make/
297 .. _Nabu: http://furius.ca/nabu/
298 .. _Writing an Extractor: http://furius.ca/nabu/doc/nabu-extractor.html
299 .. _pickle writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/blais/pickle_writer/
300 .. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
301 .. _Python: http://www.python.org/
302 .. _Python documentation: http://docs.python.org/
303 .. _PythonPoint: http://www.reportlab.org/python_point.html
304 .. _PythonPoint interface: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/richard/pythonpoint/
305 .. _rst2qhc: http://rst2qhc.googlecode.com
306 .. _Plone: http://plone.org/
307 .. _Zope: http://www.zope.org/
308 .. _Zotero: http://www.zotero.org/
309 .. _zot4rst: http://e6h.org/~egh/hg/zotero-plain
310 .. _Trac: http://trac.edgewall.org/
311 .. _Texinfo Writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/texinfo-writer/README.html