6 :Contact: LeWiemann@gmail.com
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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 * Gunnar Schwant's DocFactory_ is a wxPython GUI application for
47 * ReSTedit_ by Bill Bumgarner is a Docutils GUI for Mac OS X.
53 Convert reStructuredText to other formats:
58 * `rst2pdf (reportlab)
59 <http://rst2pdf.googlecode.com>`_ is a tool to go
60 directly from restructured text to PDF, via `reportlab
61 <http://www.reportlab.org/rl_toolkit.html>`_. No LaTeX installation is
65 <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/blais/rst2pdf/>`_ by Martin Blais
66 is a minimal front end producing LaTeX, compiling the LaTeX file, getting
67 the produced output to the destination location and finally deleting all
68 the messy temporary files that this process generates.
71 <http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/rst2pdf/README.html>`_ is
72 a front end for the generation of PDF documents from a reStructuredText
73 source via LaTeX in one step cleaning up intermediate files. It uses the
74 `rubber <http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/~beffara/soft/rubber/>`_ Python wrapper
75 for LaTeX and friends.
77 * **py.rest** from the Codespeak `py Lib scripts`_ converts
78 reStructuredText files to HTML and PDF (cleaning up the intermediate
79 latex files). Similar to ``buildhtml.py``, it looks recursively for
80 .txt files in the given PATHS.
85 * odtwriter_ the Open Document Format writer developed by Dave Kuhlman
86 produces files that can be processed with OpenOffice and Abiword.
87 Since version 0.5, the odtwriter_ it is part of the Docutils_ core.
93 * The Sphinx_ Python Documentation Generator by Georg Brandl was originally
94 created to translate the Python_ documentation, and is now `used by
95 <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/examples.html>`__ a wide choice of projects.
97 * rst2ht_ by Oliver Rutherfurd, converts reStructuredText to an .ht
98 template, for use with ht2html_.
100 * htmlnav_ by Gunnar Schwant, is an HTML writer which supports navigation
103 * rest2web_, by Michael Foord, is a tool for creating web sites with
106 * rst2chm_ by Oliver Rutherfurd, generates Microsoft HTML Help files from
107 reStructuredText files.
109 * `html4strict <http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/html4strict/>`__
110 produces XHTML that strictly conforms to the XHTML 1.0 specification.
112 * `html4trans <http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/html4trans/>`__
113 produces XHTML conforming to the version 1.0 Transitional DTD that
114 contains enough formatting information to be viewed by a lightweight HTML
115 browser without CSS support.
117 * A `simple HTML writer`_ by Bill Bumgarner that doesn't rely on CSS
124 * Pandoc_ is a document converter that can write Markdown, reStructuredText,
125 HTML, LaTeX, RTF, DocBook XML, and S5.
127 * restxsl_ by Michael Alyn Miller, lets you transform reStructuredText
128 documents into XML/XHTML files using XSLT stylesheets.
130 * An `XSLT script`_ by Ladislav Lhotka enables reStructuredText annotations
131 to be included in RELAG NG XML schemas.
133 * `ManPage Writer`_ by Engelbert Gruber.
135 * `DocBook Writer`_ by Oliver Rutherfurd.
137 * Nabu_, written by Martin Blais, is a publishing system which
138 extracts information from reStructuredText documents and stores it
139 in a database. Python knowledge is required to write extractor
140 functions (see `Writing an Extractor`_) and to retrieve the data
141 from the database again.
143 * The `pickle writer`_ by Martin Blais pickles the document tree to a binary
144 string. Later unpickling will allow you to publish with other Writers.
147 * The `Texinfo Writer`_, by Jon Waltman converts reStructuredText to
148 Texinfo, the documentation format used by the GNU project and the
149 Emacs text editor. Texinfo can be used to produce multiple output
150 formats, including HTML, PDF, and Info.
156 Convert other formats to reStructuredText:
158 * sxw2rest_, by Trent W. Buck, converts StarOffice XML Writer (SXW)
159 files to reStructuredText.
161 * xml2rst_, an XSLT stylesheet written by Stefan Merten, converts XML
162 dumps of the document tree (e.g. created with rst2xml.py) back to
165 * xhtml2rest_, written by Antonios Christofides, is a simple utility
166 to convert XHTML to reStructuredText.
168 * Sphinx_ includes a `LaTeX to Rst converter
169 <http://svn.python.org/projects/doctools/converter/>`__ in its source code
170 (trimmed to importing the old Python docs).
172 * Pandoc_ can read Markdown and (subsets of) HTML, and LaTeX and export to
173 (amongst others) reStructuredText.
175 * PySource_, by Tony Ibbs, is an experimental Python source Reader.
176 There is some related code in David Goodger's sandbox
177 (pysource_reader_) and a `Python Source Reader`_ document.
183 Extend the reStructuredText syntax or the features of Docutils.
184 More extensions are in the `Docutils Sandbox`_.
186 * Jens J. Mortensen developed `LaTeX math for reST`_, which writes to
187 LaTeX or to MathML. It's included with Docutils > 0.7 (2010-11-05).
189 * BENI Cherniavsky has written a generic `preprocessing module`_ for
190 roles and/or directives and built preprocessors for TeX math for
191 both LaTeX and HTML output on top of it.
193 * Beni Cherniavsky maintains a Makefile_ for driving Docutils, hoping
194 to handle everything one might do with Docutils.
196 * The `ASCII art to SVG converter`_ (aafigure) developed by
197 Chris Liechti can parse ASCII art images, embedded in reST documents and
198 output an image. This would mean that simple illustrations could be
199 embedded as ASCII art in the reST source and still look nice when
200 converted to e.g. HTML
206 Applications using docutils/reStructuredText and helper applications.
208 * For Wikis, please see the `FAQ entry about Wikis`_.
210 * For Blogs (Weblogs), please see the `FAQ entry about Blogs`_.
215 * Sphinx_ extends the ReStructuredText syntax to better support the
216 documentation of Software projects (but other documents can be written
217 with it too). Since version 2.6, the `Python documentation`_ is based on
218 reStructuredText and Sphinx.
220 * Trac_, a project management and bug/issue tracking system, supports
221 `using reStructuredText
222 <http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/wiki/WikiRestructuredText>`__ as an
223 alternative to wiki markup.
225 * PyLit_ provides a bidirectional text <--> code converter for *literate
226 programming with reStructuredText*.
228 * If you are developing a Qt app, rst2qhc_ lets you generate the whole help
229 automatically from restructured text. That includes keywords, TOC,
230 multiple manuals per project, filters, project file, collection project
237 * Plone_ and Zope_ both support reStructuredText markup.
238 * ZReST_, by Richard Jones, is a "ReStructuredText Document for Zope_"
239 application that is complete and ready to install.
244 * `native support for S5 <slide-shows.s5.html>`_;
246 * The `PythonPoint interface`_ by Richard Jones produces PDF
247 presentations using ReportLabs' PythonPoint_.
249 * InkSlide_ quick and easy presentations using Inkscape_. InkSlide uses
250 reStructuredText for markup, although it renders only a subset of rst.
252 .. _Docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
253 .. _FAQ entry about Wikis: http://docutils.sf.net/FAQ.html#are-there-any-wikis-that-use-restructuredtext-syntax
254 .. _FAQ entry about Blogs: http://docutils.sf.net/FAQ.html#are-there-any-weblog-blog-projects-that-use-restructuredtext-syntax
255 .. _py Lib scripts: http://codespeak.net/py/dist/bin.html
256 .. _PyLit: http://pylit.berlios.de
257 .. _Pandoc: http://sophos.berkeley.edu/macfarlane/pandoc/
258 .. _restxsl: http://www.strangeGizmo.com/products/restxsl/
259 .. _XSLT script: http://www.cesnet.cz/doc/techzpravy/2006/rngrest/
260 .. _ReSTedit: http://www.friday.com/bbum/index.php?s=restedit
261 .. _ASCII art to SVG converter: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/cliechti/aafigure/
262 .. _LaTeX math for reST:
263 http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/jensj/latex_math/
264 .. _sxw2rest: http://twb.ath.cx/~twb/darcs/sxw2rest/
265 .. _xml2rst: http://www.merten-home.de/FreeSoftware/xml2rst/index.html
266 .. _rst2ht: http://www.rutherfurd.net/articles/rst-ht2html.html
267 .. _ht2html: http://ht2html.sourceforge.net/
268 .. _htmlnav: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/gschwant/htmlnav/
269 .. _Inkscape: http://inkscape.org/
270 .. _InkSlide: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InkSlide
271 .. _xhtml2rest: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/wiemann/xhtml2rest/
272 .. _rst2chm: http://www.rutherfurd.net/software/rst2chm/
273 .. _rest2web: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/rest2web/
274 .. _Docutils Sandbox: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/README.html
275 .. _ZReST: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/richard/ZReST/
276 .. _PySource: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/tibs/pysource/
277 .. _pysource_reader: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/davidg/pysource_reader/
278 .. _Python Source Reader: http://docutils.sf.net/docs/dev/pysource.html
279 .. _Manpage Writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/manpage-writer/
280 .. _ReportLabs/PDF Writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/dreamcatcher/rlpdf/
281 .. _DocBook Writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/oliverr/docbook/
282 .. _DocFactory: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/gschwant/docfactory/doc/
283 .. _odtwriter: http://docutils.sf.net/docs/user/odt.html
284 .. _simple HTML writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/bbum/DocArticle/
285 .. _preprocessing module: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/cben/rolehack/
286 .. _Makefile: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/cben/make/
287 .. _Nabu: http://furius.ca/nabu/
288 .. _Writing an Extractor: http://furius.ca/nabu/doc/nabu-extractor.html
289 .. _pickle writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/blais/pickle_writer/
290 .. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
291 .. _Python: http://www.python.org/
292 .. _Python documentation: http://docs.python.org/
293 .. _PythonPoint: http://www.reportlab.org/python_point.html
294 .. _PythonPoint interface: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/richard/pythonpoint/
295 .. _rst2qhc: http://rst2qhc.googlecode.com
296 .. _Plone: http://plone.org/
297 .. _Zope: http://www.zope.org/
298 .. _Trac: http://trac.edgewall.org/
299 .. _Texinfo Writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/texinfo-writer/README.html