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2 Docutils: Documentation Utilities
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5 Written in Python, for General- and Special-Purpose Use
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8 Docutils is an open-source text processing system for processing
9 plaintext documentation into useful formats, such as HTML or LaTeX.
10 It includes reStructuredText_, the easy to read, easy to use,
11 what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language.
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18 **To get up & running quickly**, see the Quick-Start_ section of the
21 All **documentation** can be reached from the `Docutils Project
22 Documentation Overview`_.
24 To the developers of an open source project, **feedback** is a great
25 motivator and is very welcome. We also rely on feedback for
26 determining what features to implement. Thus, if you tell us what you
27 need, you may just get it! Please post any feedback to the
28 Docutils-users_ mailing list.
30 All **discussion** about Docutils takes place on the `mailing lists`_.
32 If you find a **bug**, please file a `bug report`_ or send email to
33 the Docutils-users_ mailing list. **Patch** submissions should be
34 filed in the `patch tracker`_ or sent to Docutils-develop_.
36 We welcome all kinds of **contributions**. There's a `To Do list`_
37 full of interesting ideas awaiting a champion. If you have any
38 questions regarding how to extend Docutils, please feel free to ask on
39 the Docutils-develop_ mailing list. Please also consider **donating**
40 to Docutils: |donate|.
42 The only **requirement** for running Docutils is Python_ 2.2 or later.
43 (Up to docutils-0.4 Python 2.1 may be used providing the compiler package
44 is installed. The compiler package can be found in the Tools/ directory of
45 Python's source distribution.)
47 Docutils is in active development and should be considered **experimental**.
48 APIs are subject to change at any time.
54 We recommend that you use the latest **snapshot**,
55 `<docutils-snapshot.tgz>`_. The snapshots usually contain *more
56 features* and *fewer bugs* than the "official" releases |---| they're
57 not only for developers!
59 The latest **release package** is `docutils-0.5.tgz`__. It was
60 released on 2008-06-25 and is mostly intended for distributors. See
61 the `release notes`_ for a list of changes since the previous release
64 __ http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/docutils/docutils-0.5.tar.gz?download
65 .. _release notes: RELEASE-NOTES.html#release-0-5-2008-06-25
69 - `Snapshot of the Sandbox`_ (experimental, contributed code; see the
71 - `Snapshot of DocFactory project files`_ (this is a subset of the
72 Sandbox snapshot above; you don't need both)
74 You can also access `Docutils' Subversion repository`_ directly.
78 Web site, tracker and mailing lists hosted by |SourceForge|_.
79 Subversion repository hosted by |BerliOS|_.
84 Google should index the mailing lists: `Docutils-users
85 <http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.text.docutils.user/last=/force_load=t>`__,
87 <http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.text.docutils.devel/last=/force_load=t>`__,
88 and `Docutils-checkins
89 <http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.text.docutils.cvs/last=/force_load=t>`__.
91 .. |---| unicode:: U+02014 .. em dash
93 .. _Deploying Docutils Securely: docs/howto/security.html
95 http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyCon2006/Sprints/DocutilsSprint
96 .. _PyCon 2006: http://us.pycon.org/TX2006/HomePage
97 .. _dugui: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/dugui/
98 .. _LaTeX math support:
99 http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/latex_directive/
100 .. _latest snapshot: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docutils-snapshot.tgz
101 .. _Snapshot of the Sandbox:
102 http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docutils-sandbox-snapshot.tgz
103 .. _Snapshot of DocFactory project files:
104 http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docfactory-snapshot.tgz
105 .. _bug report: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=38414&atid=422030
106 .. _patch tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=38414&atid=422032
107 .. _mailing lists: docs/user/mailing-lists.html
108 .. _Docutils-users: docs/user/mailing-lists.html#docutils-users
109 .. _Docutils-develop: docs/user/mailing-lists.html#docutils-develop
110 .. _sandbox: sandbox/README.html
111 .. _reStructuredText: rst.html
112 .. _project files page:
113 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=38414
114 .. _To Do list: docs/dev/todo.html
115 .. _README: README.html
116 .. _Quick-Start: README.html#quick-start
117 .. _Docutils Project Documentation Overview: docs/index.html
118 .. _Docutils' Subversion repository: docs/dev/repository.html
119 .. |donate| image:: http://images.sourceforge.net/images/project-support.jpg
120 :target: http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=38414
124 :alt: Support the Docutils project!
125 .. |SourceForge| image::
126 http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=38414
127 :alt: SourceForge Logo
133 http://developer.berlios.de/sflogo.php?group_id=2920
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145 .. _BerliOS: http://developer.berlios.de/
146 .. _SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/
147 .. _Python: http://www.python.org/
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