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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 Advanced text editors with reStructuredText support, IDEs, and docutils GUIs:
29 * Emacs `rst mode <http://docutils.sf.net/tools/editors/emacs>`__.
31 * `Vim <http://www.vim.org/index.php>`__:
33 - `reStructuredText syntax highlighting mode
34 <http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=973>`__,
36 - `VST <http://skawina.eu.org/mikolaj/vst.html>`__ (Vim reStructuredText)
37 plugin for Vim7 with folding.
39 - `VOoM <http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2657>`__
40 plugin for Vim that emulates two-pane outliner with
41 support for reStructuredText (since version 4.0b2).
43 * `JED <http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/>`__ programmers editor with
44 `rst mode <http://jedmodes.sf.net/mode/rst/>`__
46 * `reStructuredText editor plug-in for Eclipse`__
48 __ http://resteditor.sf.net/
50 * Gunnar Schwant's DocFactory_ is a wxPython GUI application for
53 .. _DocFactory: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/gschwant/docfactory/doc/
55 * ReSTedit_ by Bill Bumgarner is a Docutils GUI for Mac OS X.
57 * Leo_ is an outliner_, written in Python using PyQt. It can be used as IDE
58 for literal programming, as a filing cabinet holding any kind of data and
59 as `document editor`__ with outlines containing reStructuredText markup.
61 .. _Leo: http://leoeditor.com/
62 .. _outliner: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliner
63 __ http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/rstplugin3.html
65 * `NoTex <https://notex.ch>`_ is a browser based reStructuredText editor
66 with syntax highlighting and PDF/HTML export functionality using Sphinx.
72 Convert reStructuredText to other formats:
77 * `rst2pdf (reportlab)
78 <http://rst2pdf.googlecode.com>`_ is a tool to go
79 directly from reStructuredText to PDF, via `reportlab
80 <http://www.reportlab.org/rl_toolkit.html>`_. No LaTeX installation is
84 <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/blais/rst2pdf/>`_ by Martin Blais
85 is a minimal front end producing LaTeX, compiling the LaTeX file, getting
86 the produced output to the destination location and finally deleting all
87 the messy temporary files that this process generates.
90 <http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/rst2pdf/README.html>`_ is
91 a front end for the generation of PDF documents from a reStructuredText
92 source via LaTeX in one step cleaning up intermediate files. It uses the
93 `rubber <http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/~beffara/soft/rubber/>`_ Python wrapper
94 for LaTeX and friends.
96 * **py.rest** from the Codespeak `py Lib scripts`_ converts
97 reStructuredText files to HTML and PDF (cleaning up the intermediate
98 latex files). Similar to ``buildhtml.py``, it looks recursively for
99 .txt files in the given PATHS.
104 * odtwriter_ the Open Document Format writer developed by Dave Kuhlman
105 produces files that can be processed with OpenOffice and Abiword.
106 Since version 0.5, the odtwriter_ it is part of the Docutils_ core.
112 * The Sphinx_ Python Documentation Generator by Georg Brandl was originally
113 created to translate the Python_ documentation, and is now `used by
114 <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/examples.html>`__ a wide choice of projects.
116 Generates web sites (interlinked and indexed HTML pages) and/or PDF
117 from a set of rst source files.
119 * rst2ht_ by Oliver Rutherfurd, converts reStructuredText to an .ht
120 template, for use with ht2html_.
122 * htmlnav_ by Gunnar Schwant, is an HTML writer which supports navigation
125 * rest2web_, by Michael Foord, is a tool for creating web sites with
128 * rst2chm_ by Oliver Rutherfurd, generates Microsoft HTML Help files from
129 reStructuredText files.
131 * `html4strict <http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/html4strict/>`__
132 produces XHTML that strictly conforms to the XHTML 1.0 specification.
134 * `html4trans <http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/html4trans/>`__
135 produces XHTML conforming to the version 1.0 Transitional DTD that
136 contains enough formatting information to be viewed by a lightweight HTML
137 browser without CSS support.
139 * A `simple HTML writer`_ by Bill Bumgarner that doesn't rely on CSS
146 * Pandoc_ is a document converter that can write Markdown, reStructuredText,
147 HTML, LaTeX, RTF, DocBook XML, and S5.
149 * restxsl_ by Michael Alyn Miller, lets you transform reStructuredText
150 documents into XML/XHTML files using XSLT stylesheets.
152 * An `XSLT script`_ by Ladislav Lhotka enables reStructuredText annotations
153 to be included in RELAG NG XML schemas.
155 * `DocBook Writer`_ by Oliver Rutherfurd.
157 * Nabu_, written by Martin Blais, is a publishing system which
158 extracts information from reStructuredText documents and stores it
159 in a database. Python knowledge is required to write extractor
160 functions (see `Writing an Extractor`_) and to retrieve the data
161 from the database again.
163 * The `pickle writer`_ by Martin Blais pickles the document tree to a binary
164 string. Later unpickling will allow you to publish with other Writers.
166 * The `Texinfo Writer`_, by Jon Waltman converts reStructuredText to
167 Texinfo, the documentation format used by the GNU project and the
168 Emacs text editor. Texinfo can be used to produce multiple output
169 formats, including HTML, PDF, and Info.
171 * For `confluence CMS`_ see https://github.com/cweiske/rst2confluence.
173 * Deploying into wikis might be aided by https://github.com/netresearch/deploy-rst.
178 Convert other formats to reStructuredText:
180 * sxw2rest_, by Trent W. Buck, converts StarOffice XML Writer (SXW)
181 files to reStructuredText.
183 * xml2rst_, an XSLT stylesheet written by Stefan Merten, converts XML
184 dumps of the document tree (e.g. created with rst2xml.py) back to
187 * xhtml2rest_, written by Antonios Christofides, is a simple utility
188 to convert XHTML to reStructuredText.
190 * Sphinx_ includes a `LaTeX to Rst converter
191 <http://svn.python.org/projects/doctools/converter/>`__ in its source code
192 (trimmed to importing the old Python docs).
194 * Pandoc_ can read Markdown and (subsets of) HTML, and LaTeX and export to
195 (amongst others) reStructuredText.
197 * PySource_, by Tony Ibbs, is an experimental Python source Reader.
198 There is some related code in David Goodger's sandbox
199 (pysource_reader_) and a `Python Source Reader`_ document.
205 Extend the reStructuredText syntax or the features of Docutils.
206 More extensions are in the `Docutils Sandbox`_.
208 * Jens J. Mortensen developed `LaTeX math for reST`_, which writes to
209 LaTeX or to MathML. It's included with Docutils since 0.8 (2010-11-05).
211 * Beni Cherniavsky has written a generic `preprocessing module`_ for
212 roles and/or directives and built preprocessors for TeX math for
213 both LaTeX and HTML output on top of it.
215 * Beni Cherniavsky maintains a Makefile_ for driving Docutils, hoping
216 to handle everything one might do with Docutils.
218 * The `ASCII art to SVG converter`_ (aafigure) developed by
219 Chris Liechti can parse ASCII art images, embedded in reST documents and
220 output an image. This would mean that simple illustrations could be
221 embedded as ASCII art in the reST source and still look nice when
222 converted to e.g. HTML
224 * zot4rst_ by Erik Hetzner is an extension that allows users to write reST
225 documents using citations from a Zotero_ library.
227 * Quick and easy publishing reStructuredText source files as blog posts
228 on blogger.com is possible with `rst2blogger`_ .
233 Applications using docutils/reStructuredText and helper applications.
235 * For Wikis, please see the `FAQ entry about Wikis`_.
237 * For Blogs (Weblogs), please see the `FAQ entry about Blogs`_.
242 * Sphinx_ extends the ReStructuredText syntax to better support the
243 documentation of Software (and other) *projects* (but other documents
244 can be written with it too).
246 Since version 2.6, the `Python documentation`_ is based on
247 reStructuredText and Sphinx.
249 * Trac_, a project management and bug/issue tracking system, supports
250 `using reStructuredText
251 <http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/wiki/WikiRestructuredText>`__ as an
252 alternative to wiki markup.
254 * PyLit_ provides a bidirectional text <--> code converter for *literate
255 programming with reStructuredText*.
257 * If you are developing a Qt app, rst2qhc_ lets you generate the whole help
258 automatically from reStructuredText. That includes keywords, TOC,
259 multiple manuals per project, filters, project file, collection project
266 * Plone_ and Zope_ both support reStructuredText markup.
267 * ZReST_, by Richard Jones, is a "ReStructuredText Document for Zope_"
268 application that is complete and ready to install.
273 * `native support for S5 <slide-shows.s5.html>`_;
275 * The `PythonPoint interface`_ by Richard Jones produces PDF
276 presentations using ReportLabs' PythonPoint_.
278 * InkSlide_ quick and easy presentations using Inkscape_. InkSlide uses
279 reStructuredText for markup, although it renders only a subset of rst.
281 .. _Docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
282 .. _FAQ entry about Wikis: http://docutils.sf.net/FAQ.html#are-there-any-wikis-that-use-restructuredtext-syntax
283 .. _FAQ entry about Blogs: http://docutils.sf.net/FAQ.html#are-there-any-weblog-blog-projects-that-use-restructuredtext-syntax
284 .. _py Lib scripts: http://codespeak.net/py/dist/bin.html
285 .. _PyLit: http://pylit.berlios.de
286 .. _Pandoc: http://sophos.berkeley.edu/macfarlane/pandoc/
287 .. _restxsl: http://www.strangeGizmo.com/products/restxsl/
288 .. _XSLT script: http://www.cesnet.cz/doc/techzpravy/2006/rngrest/
289 .. _ReSTedit: http://www.friday.com/bbum/index.php?s=restedit
290 .. _ASCII art to SVG converter: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/cliechti/aafigure/
291 .. _LaTeX math for reST:
292 http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/jensj/latex_math/
293 .. _sxw2rest: http://twb.ath.cx/~twb/darcs/sxw2rest/
294 .. _xml2rst: http://www.merten-home.de/FreeSoftware/xml2rst/index.html
295 .. _rst2ht: http://www.rutherfurd.net/articles/rst-ht2html.html
296 .. _ht2html: http://ht2html.sourceforge.net/
297 .. _htmlnav: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/gschwant/htmlnav/
298 .. _Inkscape: http://inkscape.org/
299 .. _InkSlide: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InkSlide
300 .. _xhtml2rest: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/wiemann/xhtml2rest/
301 .. _rst2chm: http://www.rutherfurd.net/software/rst2chm/
302 .. _rest2web: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/rest2web/
303 .. _Docutils Sandbox: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/README.html
304 .. _ZReST: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/richard/ZReST/
305 .. _PySource: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/tibs/pysource/
306 .. _pysource_reader: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/davidg/pysource_reader/
307 .. _Python Source Reader: http://docutils.sf.net/docs/dev/pysource.html
308 .. _Manpage Writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/manpage-writer/
309 .. _ReportLabs/PDF Writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/dreamcatcher/rlpdf/
310 .. _DocBook Writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/oliverr/docbook/
311 .. _odtwriter: http://docutils.sf.net/docs/user/odt.html
312 .. _simple HTML writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/bbum/DocArticle/
313 .. _preprocessing module: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/cben/rolehack/
314 .. _Makefile: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/cben/make/
315 .. _Nabu: http://furius.ca/nabu/
316 .. _Writing an Extractor: http://furius.ca/nabu/doc/nabu-extractor.html
317 .. _pickle writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/blais/pickle_writer/
318 .. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
319 .. _Python: http://www.python.org/
320 .. _Python documentation: http://docs.python.org/
321 .. _PythonPoint: http://www.reportlab.org/python_point.html
322 .. _PythonPoint interface: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/richard/pythonpoint/
323 .. _rst2qhc: http://rst2qhc.googlecode.com
324 .. _Plone: http://plone.org/
325 .. _Zope: http://www.zope.org/
326 .. _Zotero: http://www.zotero.org/
327 .. _zot4rst: http://e6h.org/~egh/hg/zotero-plain
328 .. _Trac: http://trac.edgewall.org/
329 .. _Texinfo Writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/texinfo-writer/README.html
330 .. _confluence CMS: http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence
331 .. _rst2blogger: https://github.com/dhellmann/rst2blogger#readme