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11 .. title:: Docutils Links
15 This document contains links users of Docutils and reStructuredText
16 may find useful, listed in no particular order. 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 This section contains links which are interesting for all users of
28 Docutils. All projects listed here are usable by end users in some
29 way, however please do not expect all of them to run straight out of
35 Editors with reStructuredText support and docutils GUIs:
37 * Emacs `rst mode <http://docutils.sf.net/docutils/tools/editors/emacs>`__.
39 * `reStructuredText syntax highlighting mode
40 <http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=973>`__ for vim.
42 * `VST <http://skawina.eu.org/mikolaj/vst.html>`__ (Vim reStructured Text)
43 is a plugin for Vim7 with folding.
45 * `rst mode <http://jedmodes.sf.net/mode/rst/>`__ for the
46 `JED <http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/>`__ programmers editor
48 * Gunnar Schwant's DocFactory_ is a wxPython GUI application for
51 * ReSTedit_ by Bill Bumgarner is a Docutils GUI for Mac OS X.
57 Convert reStructuredText to other formats:
59 * `rst2pdf.py <http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/rst2pdf>`_
60 is a front end for the generation of PDF documents from a
61 reStructuredText source in one step cleaning up intermediate files.
63 * **py.rest** from the Codespeak `py Lib scripts`_ converts
64 reStructuredText files to HTML and PDF (cleaning up the intermediate
65 latex files). Similar to ``buildhtml.py``, it looks recursively for
66 .txt files in the given PATHS.
68 * odtwriter_ the Open Document Format writer developed by Dave Kuhlman
69 produces files that can be processed with OpenOffice and Abiword.
71 * restxsl_ by Michael Alyn Miller, lets you transform reStructuredText
72 documents into XML/XHTML files using XSLT stylesheets.
74 * rst2ht_ by Oliver Rutherfurd, converts reStructuredText to an .ht
75 template, for use with ht2html_.
77 * htmlnav_ by Gunnar Schwant, is an HTML writer which supports navigation
80 * rst2chm_ by Oliver Rutherfurd, generates Microsoft HTML Help files from
81 reStructuredText files.
83 * `html4strict <http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/html4strict/>`__
84 produces XHTML that strictly conforms to the XHTML 1.0 specification.
86 * `html4trans <http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/html4trans/>`__
87 produces XHTML conforming to the version 1.0 Transitional DTD that
88 contains enough formatting information to be viewed by a lightweight HTML
89 browser without CSS support.
91 * A `simple HTML writer`_ by Bill Bumgarner that doesn't rely on CSS
94 * An `XSLT script`_ by Ladislav Lhotka enables reStructuredText annotations
95 to be included in RELAG NG XML schemas.
97 * The Docutils interface to PythonPoint_
98 by Richard Jones produces PDF presentations using ReportLabs.
100 * `ManPage Writer`_ by Engelbert Gruber.
102 * `DocBook Writer`_ by Oliver Rutherfurd.
108 Convert other formats to reStructuredText:
110 * sxw2rest_, by Trent W. Buck, converts StarOffice XML Writer (SXW)
111 files to reStructuredText.
113 * xml2rst_, an XSLT stylesheet written by Stefan Merten, converts XML
114 dumps of the document tree (e.g. created with rst2xml.py) back to
117 * xhtml2rest_, written by Antonios Christofides, is a simple utility
118 to convert XHTML to reStructuredText.
123 Extend the reStructuredText syntax or the features of docutils.
124 More extensions are in the `Docutils Sandbox`_.
126 * Jens J. Mortensen developed `LaTeX math for reST`_, which writes to
129 * Beni Cherniavsky has written a generic `preprocessing module`_ for
130 roles and/or directives and built preprocessors for TeX math for
131 both LaTeX and HTML output on top of it.
137 Applications using docutils/reStructuredText, helper applications:
139 * For Wikis, please see the `FAQ entry about Wikis`_.
141 * For Blogs (Weblogs), please see the `FAQ entry about Blogs`_.
143 * PyLit_ provides a bidirectional text <--> code converter for *literate
144 programming with reStructuredText*.
146 * Pandoc_ is a document converter; it can read Markdown and (subsets
147 of) reStructuredText, HTML, and LaTeX, and it can write Markdown,
148 reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, RTF, DocBook XML, and S5.
150 * rest2web_, by Michael Foord, is a tool for creating web sites with
153 * There is an `ASCII art to SVG converter`_ (aafigure), developed by
156 * ZReST_, by Richard Jones, is a "ReStructuredText Document for Zope"
157 application that is complete and ready to install.
159 * Beni Cherniavsky maintains a Makefile_ for driving Docutils, hoping
160 to handle everything one might do with Docutils.
167 This section contains links which are primarily interesting for
168 developers who use the Docutils API from within their own
171 * Nabu_, written by Martin Blais, is a publishing system which
172 extracts information from reStructuredText documents and stores it
173 in a database. Python knowledge is required to write extractor
174 functions (see `Writing an Extractor`_) and to retrieve the data
175 from the database again.
177 * There is a `pickle writer`_, written by Martin Blais.
183 Links primarily interesting for developers who work with the Docutils
186 * PySource_, by Tony Ibbs, is an experimental Python source Reader.
187 There is some related code in David Goodger's sandbox
188 (pysource_reader_) and a `Python Source Reader`_ document.
191 .. _Docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
192 .. _FAQ entry about Wikis: http://docutils.sf.net/FAQ.html#are-there-any-wikis-that-use-restructuredtext-syntax
193 .. _FAQ entry about Blogs: http://docutils.sf.net/FAQ.html#are-there-any-weblog-blog-projects-that-use-restructuredtext-syntax
194 .. _py Lib scripts: http://codespeak.net/py/dist/bin.html
195 .. _PyLit: http://pylit.berlios.de
196 .. _Pandoc: http://sophos.berkeley.edu/macfarlane/pandoc/
197 .. _restxsl: http://www.strangeGizmo.com/products/restxsl/
198 .. _XSLT script: http://www.cesnet.cz/doc/techzpravy/2006/rngrest/
199 .. _ReSTedit: http://www.friday.com/bbum/index.php?s=restedit
200 .. _ASCII art to SVG converter: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/cliechti/aafigure/
201 .. _LaTeX math for reST:
202 http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/jensj/latex_math/
203 .. _sxw2rest: http://twb.ath.cx/~twb/darcs/sxw2rest/
204 .. _xml2rst: http://www.merten-home.de/FreeSoftware/xml2rst/index.html
205 .. _rst2ht: http://www.rutherfurd.net/articles/rst-ht2html.html
206 .. _ht2html: http://ht2html.sourceforge.net/
207 .. _htmlnav: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/gschwant/htmlnav/
208 .. _xhtml2rest: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/wiemann/xhtml2rest/
209 .. _rst2chm: http://www.rutherfurd.net/software/rst2chm/
210 .. _rest2web: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/rest2web/
211 .. _Docutils Sandbox: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/README.html
212 .. _ZReST: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/richard/ZReST/
213 .. _PySource: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/tibs/pysource/
214 .. _pysource_reader: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/davidg/pysource_reader/
215 .. _Python Source Reader: http://docutils.sf.net/docs/dev/pysource.html
216 .. _PythonPoint: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/richard/pythonpoint/
217 .. _Manpage Writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/manpage-writer/
218 .. _ReportLabs/PDF Writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/dreamcatcher/rlpdf/
219 .. _DocBook Writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/oliverr/docbook/
220 .. _DocFactory: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/gschwant/docfactory/doc/
221 .. _odtwriter: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/dkuhlman/OpenDocument/README.html
222 .. _simple HTML writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/bbum/DocArticle/
223 .. _preprocessing module: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/cben/rolehack/
224 .. _Makefile: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/cben/make/
225 .. _Nabu: http://furius.ca/nabu/
226 .. _Writing an Extractor: http://furius.ca/nabu/doc/nabu-extractor.html
227 .. _pickle writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/blais/pickle_writer/