5 :Author: Lea Wiemann, the Docutils team
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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 projects
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.
23 .. _Docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
24 .. _Docutils Sandbox: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/README.html
30 Advanced text editors with reStructuredText support, IDEs, and docutils GUIs:
32 * Emacs `rst mode <http://docutils.sf.net/tools/editors/emacs>`__.
34 * `Vim <http://www.vim.org/index.php>`__:
36 - `reStructuredText syntax highlighting mode
37 <http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=973>`__,
39 - `VST <http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1334>`__ (Vim
40 reStructuredText) plugin for Vim7 with folding.
42 - `VOoM <http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2657>`__
43 plugin for Vim that emulates two-pane outliner with
44 support for reStructuredText (since version 4.0b2).
46 - `Riv: Take notes in rst <https://github.com/Rykka/riv.vim>`__ Vim
47 plugin to take notes in reStructured text.
49 * `JED <http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/>`__ programmers editor with
50 `rst mode <http://jedmodes.sf.net/mode/rst/>`__
52 * `reStructuredText editor plug-in for Eclipse`__
54 __ http://resteditor.sf.net/
56 * Gnome's gedit offers syntax highlighting and a reST preview pane.
58 Latest version of the plugin is available from `bittner @ github`_
59 (See also: `Gedit third party plugins`__).
61 __ https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit/ThirdPartyPlugins-v3.8
63 .. _bittner @ github: https://github.com/bittner/gedit-reST-plugin
66 * Gunnar Schwant's DocFactory_ is a wxPython GUI application for
69 * ReSTedit_ by Bill Bumgarner is a Docutils GUI for Mac OS X.
71 * Leo_ is an outliner_, written in Python using PyQt. It can be used as IDE
72 for literal programming, as a filing cabinet holding any kind of data and
73 as `document editor`__ with outlines containing reStructuredText markup.
75 .. _outliner: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliner
76 __ http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/rstplugin3.html
78 * `NoTex <https://notex.ch>`_ is a browser based reStructuredText editor
79 with syntax highlighting and PDF/HTML export functionality using Sphinx.
81 * `rsted <https://github.com/anru/rsted>`_ is a "simple online editor for
82 reStructuredText on Flask". You can try it on http://rst.ninjs.org/
84 .. _DocFactory: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/gschwant/docfactory/doc/
85 .. _ReSTedit: http://www.friday.com/bbum/index.php?s=restedit
86 .. _Leo: http://leoeditor.com/
92 Convert reStructuredText to other formats:
97 * `rst2pdf (reportlab)
98 <http://rst2pdf.googlecode.com>`_ is a tool to go
99 directly from reStructuredText to PDF, via `reportlab
100 <http://www.reportlab.org/rl_toolkit.html>`_. No LaTeX installation is
103 * `rst2pdf (pdflatex)
104 <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/blais/rst2pdf/>`_ by Martin Blais
105 is a minimal front end producing LaTeX, compiling the LaTeX file, getting
106 the produced output to the destination location and finally deleting all
107 the messy temporary files that this process generates.
110 <http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/rst2pdf/README.html>`_ is
111 a front end for the generation of PDF documents from a reStructuredText
112 source via LaTeX in one step cleaning up intermediate files. It uses the
113 `rubber <http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/~beffara/soft/rubber/>`_ Python wrapper
114 for LaTeX and friends.
116 * ``py.rest`` from the Codespeak `py Lib scripts`_ converts
117 reStructuredText files to HTML and PDF (cleaning up the intermediate
118 latex files). Similar to ``buildhtml.py``, it looks recursively for
119 .txt files in the given PATHS.
121 * rlpdf_ is another PDF Writer based on ReportLabs.
123 .. _py Lib scripts: http://codespeak.net/py/dist/bin.html
124 .. _rlpdf: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/dreamcatcher/rlpdf/
130 * Since version 0.5, the odtwriter_ by Dave Kuhlman is part of the Docutils_
133 .. _odtwriter: http://docutils.sf.net/docs/user/odt.html
136 website generators and HTML variants
137 ````````````````````````````````````
139 * The Sphinx_ Python Documentation Generator by Georg Brandl was originally
140 created to translate the `Python documentation`_, and is now `used by
141 <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/examples.html>`__ a wide choice of projects.
143 It can generate complete web sites (interlinked and indexed HTML pages)
144 and/or PDF from a set of rst source files.
146 * Nikola_ static site generator, use restructured text by
149 * rst2ht_ by Oliver Rutherfurd, converts reStructuredText to an .ht
150 template, for use with ht2html_.
152 * htmlnav_ by Gunnar Schwant, is an HTML writer which supports navigation
155 * rest2web_, by Michael Foord, is a tool for creating web sites with
158 * rst2chm_ by Oliver Rutherfurd, generates Microsoft HTML Help files from
159 reStructuredText files.
161 * `html4strict <http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/html4strict/>`__
162 produces XHTML that strictly conforms to the XHTML 1.0 specification.
164 * `html4trans <http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/html4trans/>`__
165 produces XHTML conforming to the version 1.0 Transitional DTD that
166 contains enough formatting information to be viewed by a lightweight HTML
167 browser without CSS support.
169 * A `simple HTML writer`_ by Bill Bumgarner that doesn't rely on CSS
172 .. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
173 .. _nikola: http://getnikola.com/
174 .. _rst2ht: http://www.rutherfurd.net/articles/rst-ht2html.html
175 .. _ht2html: http://ht2html.sourceforge.net/
176 .. _htmlnav: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/gschwant/htmlnav/
177 .. _rst2chm: http://www.rutherfurd.net/software/rst2chm/
178 .. _rest2web: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/rest2web/
179 .. _simple HTML writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/bbum/DocArticle/
185 * Pandoc_ is a document converter that can write Markdown, reStructuredText,
186 HTML, LaTeX, RTF, DocBook XML, and S5.
188 * restxsl_ by Michael Alyn Miller, lets you transform reStructuredText
189 documents into XML/XHTML files using XSLT stylesheets.
191 * An `XSLT script`__ by Ladislav Lhotka enables reStructuredText annotations
192 to be included in RELAG NG XML schemas.
194 __ http://www.cesnet.cz/doc/techzpravy/2006/rngrest/
196 * `DocBook Writer`_ by Oliver Rutherfurd.
198 * Nabu_, written by Martin Blais, is a publishing system which
199 extracts information from reStructuredText documents and stores it
200 in a database. Python knowledge is required to write extractor
201 functions (see `Writing an Extractor`_) and to retrieve the data
202 from the database again.
204 * The `pickle writer`_ by Martin Blais pickles the document tree to a binary
205 string. Later unpickling will allow you to publish with other Writers.
207 * The `Texinfo Writer`_, by Jon Waltman converts reStructuredText to
208 Texinfo, the documentation format used by the GNU project and the
209 Emacs text editor. Texinfo can be used to produce multiple output
210 formats, including HTML, PDF, and Info.
212 * For `confluence CMS`_ see https://github.com/netresearch/rst2confluence.
214 * Deploying into wikis might be aided by deploy-rst_.
216 .. _Pandoc: http://sophos.berkeley.edu/macfarlane/pandoc/
217 .. _restxsl: http://www.strangeGizmo.com/products/restxsl/
218 .. _DocBook Writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/oliverr/docbook/
219 .. _Nabu: http://furius.ca/nabu/
220 .. _Writing an Extractor: http://furius.ca/nabu/doc/nabu-extractor.html
221 .. _pickle writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/blais/pickle_writer/
222 .. _Texinfo Writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/texinfo-writer/README.html
223 .. _confluence CMS: http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence
224 .. _deploy-rst: https://github.com/netresearch/deploy-rst
230 Convert other formats to reStructuredText:
232 * sxw2rest_, by Trent W. Buck, converts StarOffice XML Writer (SXW)
233 files to reStructuredText.
235 * xml2rst_, an XSLT stylesheet written by Stefan Merten, converts XML
236 dumps of the document tree (e.g. created with rst2xml.py) back to
239 * xhtml2rest_, written by Antonios Christofides, is a simple utility
240 to convert XHTML to reStructuredText.
242 * Sphinx_ includes a `LaTeX to Rst converter
243 <http://svn.python.org/projects/doctools/converter/>`__ in its source code
244 (trimmed to importing the old Python docs).
246 * Pandoc_ can read Markdown and (subsets of) HTML, and LaTeX and export to
247 (amongst others) reStructuredText.
249 * PySource_, by Tony Ibbs, is an experimental Python source Reader.
250 There is some related code in David Goodger's sandbox
251 (pysource_reader_) and a `Python Source Reader`_ document.
253 .. _sxw2rest: http://twb.ath.cx/~twb/darcs/sxw2rest/
254 .. _xml2rst: http://www.merten-home.de/FreeSoftware/xml2rst/index.html
255 .. _xhtml2rest: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/wiemann/xhtml2rest/
257 .. _PySource: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/tibs/pysource/
258 .. _pysource_reader: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/davidg/pysource_reader/
259 .. _Python Source Reader: http://docutils.sf.net/docs/dev/pysource.html
265 Extend the reStructuredText syntax or the features of Docutils.
266 More extensions are in the `Docutils Sandbox`_.
268 * Beni Cherniavsky has written a generic `preprocessing module`_ for
269 roles and/or directives and built preprocessors for TeX math for
270 both LaTeX and HTML output on top of it.
272 * Beni Cherniavsky maintains a Makefile_ for driving Docutils, hoping
273 to handle everything one might do with Docutils.
275 * The `ASCII art to SVG converter`_ (aafigure) developed by
276 Chris Liechti can parse ASCII art images, embedded in reST documents and
277 output an image. This would mean that simple illustrations could be
278 embedded as ASCII art in the reST source and still look nice when
279 converted to e.g. HTML
281 * zot4rst_ by Erik Hetzner is an extension that allows users to write reST
282 documents using citations from a Zotero_ library.
284 * Quick and easy publishing reStructuredText source files as blog posts
285 on blogger.com is possible with `rst2blogger`_ .
287 .. _preprocessing module: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/cben/rolehack/
288 .. _Makefile: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/cben/make/
289 .. _ASCII art to SVG converter:
290 http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/cliechti/aafigure/
291 .. _zot4rst: http://e6h.org/~egh/hg/zotero-plain
292 .. _Zotero: http://www.zotero.org/
293 .. _rst2blogger: https://github.com/dhellmann/rst2blogger#readme
299 Applications using docutils/reStructuredText and helper applications.
301 * For Wikis, please see the `FAQ entry about Wikis`_.
303 * For Blogs (Weblogs), please see the `FAQ entry about Blogs`_.
305 * `Project Gutenberg`_ uses docutils, but with it's own xetex- and nroff-writer
308 .. _FAQ entry about Wikis: http://docutils.sf.net/FAQ.html#are-there-any-wikis-that-use-restructuredtext-syntax
309 .. _FAQ entry about Blogs: http://docutils.sf.net/FAQ.html#are-there-any-weblog-blog-projects-that-use-restructuredtext-syntax
310 .. _Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org
316 * Sphinx_ extends the ReStructuredText syntax to better support the
317 documentation of Software (and other) *projects* (but other documents
318 can be written with it too).
320 Since version 2.6, the `Python documentation`_ is based on
321 reStructuredText and Sphinx.
323 * Trac_, a project management and bug/issue tracking system, supports
324 `using reStructuredText
325 <http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/WikiRestructuredText>`__ as an
326 alternative to wiki markup.
328 * PyLit_ provides a bidirectional text <--> code converter for *literate
329 programming with reStructuredText*.
331 * If you are developing a Qt app, rst2qhc_ lets you generate the whole help
332 automatically from reStructuredText. That includes keywords, TOC,
333 multiple manuals per project, filters, project file, collection project
336 .. _Python documentation: http://docs.python.org/
337 .. _Trac: http://trac.edgewall.org/
338 .. _PyLit: http://pylit.berlios.de
339 .. _rst2qhc: http://rst2qhc.googlecode.com
345 * Plone_ and Zope_ both support reStructuredText markup.
346 * ZReST_, by Richard Jones, is a "ReStructuredText Document for Zope_"
347 application that is complete and ready to install.
349 .. _Plone: http://plone.org/
350 .. _Zope: http://www.zope.org/
351 .. _ZReST: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/richard/ZReST/
357 * rst2html5_ transform restructuredtext documents to html5 + twitter's
358 bootstrap css, deck.js or reveal.js
360 * landslide_ generates HTML5 slideshows from markdown, ReST, or textile.
362 * `native support for S5 <slide-shows.s5.html>`_.
364 * The `PythonPoint interface`_ by Richard Jones produces PDF
365 presentations using ReportLabs' PythonPoint_.
367 * rst2beamer_ generates a LaTeX source that uses the `Beamer` document class.
368 Can be converted to PDF slides with pdfLaTeX/XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX.
370 * InkSlide_ quick and easy presentations using Inkscape_. InkSlide uses
371 reStructuredText for markup, although it renders only a subset of rst.
373 * rst2outline_ translates a reStructuredText document to a plain text
374 outline. This can then be transformed to PowerPoint.
376 * Pandoc_ can also be used to produce slides, as shown in this
377 `Pandoc Slides Demo`_
379 .. _PythonPoint: http://www.reportlab.org/python_point.html
380 .. _PythonPoint interface: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/richard/pythonpoint/
381 .. _rst2beamer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/rst2beamer/
382 .. _Inkscape: http://inkscape.org/
383 .. _InkSlide: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InkSlide
384 .. _rst2html5: https://github.com/marianoguerra/rst2html5
385 .. _landslide: https://github.com/adamzap/landslide
386 .. _rst2outline: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/rst2outline/
387 .. _Pandoc Slides Demo:
388 http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/demo/example9/producing-slide-shows-with-pandoc