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
65 * A BBEdit__/TextWrangler language module for editing reST documents.
67 __ http://ericfromcanada.bitbucket.org/
69 * Gunnar Schwant's DocFactory_ is a wxPython GUI application for
72 * ReSTedit_ by Bill Bumgarner is a Docutils GUI for Mac OS X.
74 * Leo_ is an outliner_, written in Python using PyQt. It can be used as IDE
75 for literal programming, as a filing cabinet holding any kind of data and
76 as `document editor`__ with outlines containing reStructuredText markup.
78 .. _outliner: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliner
79 __ http://leoeditor.com/tutorial-rst3.html
81 * `NoTex <https://notex.ch>`_ is a browser based reStructuredText editor
82 with syntax highlighting and PDF/HTML export functionality using Sphinx.
84 * `rsted <https://github.com/anru/rsted>`_ is a "simple online editor for
85 reStructuredText on Flask". You can try it on http://rst.ninjs.org/
87 .. _DocFactory: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/gschwant/docfactory/doc/
88 .. _ReSTedit: http://www.friday.com/bbum/index.php?s=restedit
89 .. _Leo: http://leoeditor.com/
95 Convert reStructuredText to other formats:
100 * `rst2pdf (reportlab)
101 <http://rst2pdf.googlecode.com>`_ is a tool to go
102 directly from reStructuredText to PDF, via `reportlab
103 <http://www.reportlab.org/rl_toolkit.html>`_. No LaTeX installation is
106 * `rst2pdf (pdflatex)
107 <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/blais/rst2pdf/>`_ by Martin Blais
108 is a minimal front end producing LaTeX, compiling the LaTeX file, getting
109 the produced output to the destination location and finally deleting all
110 the messy temporary files that this process generates.
113 <http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/rst2pdf/README.html>`_ is
114 a front end for the generation of PDF documents from a reStructuredText
115 source via LaTeX in one step cleaning up intermediate files. It uses the
116 `rubber <http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/~beffara/soft/rubber/>`_ Python wrapper
117 for LaTeX and friends.
119 * ``py.rest`` from the Codespeak `py Lib scripts`_ converts
120 reStructuredText files to HTML and PDF (cleaning up the intermediate
121 latex files). Similar to ``buildhtml.py``, it looks recursively for
122 .txt files in the given PATHS.
124 * rlpdf_ is another PDF Writer based on ReportLabs.
126 .. _py Lib scripts: http://codespeak.net/py/dist/bin.html
127 .. _rlpdf: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/dreamcatcher/rlpdf/
133 * Since version 0.5, the odtwriter_ by Dave Kuhlman is part of the Docutils_
136 .. _odtwriter: http://docutils.sf.net/docs/user/odt.html
139 website generators and HTML variants
140 ````````````````````````````````````
142 * The Sphinx_ Python Documentation Generator by Georg Brandl was originally
143 created to translate the `Python documentation`_, and is now `used by
144 <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/examples.html>`__ a wide choice of projects.
146 It can generate complete web sites (interlinked and indexed HTML pages)
147 and/or PDF from a set of rst source files.
149 * Nikola_ static site generator, use restructured text by
152 * rst2ht_ by Oliver Rutherfurd, converts reStructuredText to an .ht
153 template, for use with ht2html_.
155 * htmlnav_ by Gunnar Schwant, is an HTML writer which supports navigation
158 * rest2web_, by Michael Foord, is a tool for creating web sites with
161 * rst2chm_ by Oliver Rutherfurd, generates Microsoft HTML Help files from
162 reStructuredText files.
164 * `html4strict <http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/html4strict/>`__
165 produces XHTML that strictly conforms to the XHTML 1.0 specification.
167 * `html4trans <http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/html4trans/>`__
168 produces XHTML conforming to the version 1.0 Transitional DTD that
169 contains enough formatting information to be viewed by a lightweight HTML
170 browser without CSS support.
172 * A `simple HTML writer`_ by Bill Bumgarner that doesn't rely on CSS
175 .. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
176 .. _nikola: http://getnikola.com/
177 .. _rst2ht: http://www.rutherfurd.net/articles/rst-ht2html.html
178 .. _ht2html: http://ht2html.sourceforge.net/
179 .. _htmlnav: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/gschwant/htmlnav/
180 .. _rst2chm: http://www.rutherfurd.net/software/rst2chm/
181 .. _rest2web: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/rest2web/
182 .. _simple HTML writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/bbum/DocArticle/
188 * Pandoc_ is a document converter that can write Markdown, reStructuredText,
189 HTML, LaTeX, RTF, DocBook XML, and S5.
191 * restxsl_ by Michael Alyn Miller, lets you transform reStructuredText
192 documents into XML/XHTML files using XSLT stylesheets.
194 * An `XSLT script`__ by Ladislav Lhotka enables reStructuredText annotations
195 to be included in RELAG NG XML schemas.
197 __ http://www.cesnet.cz/doc/techzpravy/2006/rngrest/
199 * `DocBook Writer`_ by Oliver Rutherfurd.
201 * Nabu_, written by Martin Blais, is a publishing system which
202 extracts information from reStructuredText documents and stores it
203 in a database. Python knowledge is required to write extractor
204 functions (see `Writing an Extractor`_) and to retrieve the data
205 from the database again.
207 * The `pickle writer`_ by Martin Blais pickles the document tree to a binary
208 string. Later unpickling will allow you to publish with other Writers.
210 * The `Texinfo Writer`_, by Jon Waltman converts reStructuredText to
211 Texinfo, the documentation format used by the GNU project and the
212 Emacs text editor. Texinfo can be used to produce multiple output
213 formats, including HTML, PDF, and Info.
215 * For `confluence CMS`_ see https://github.com/netresearch/rst2confluence.
217 * Deploying into wikis might be aided by deploy-rst_.
219 .. _Pandoc: http://sophos.berkeley.edu/macfarlane/pandoc/
220 .. _restxsl: http://www.strangeGizmo.com/products/restxsl/
221 .. _DocBook Writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/oliverr/docbook/
222 .. _Nabu: http://furius.ca/nabu/
223 .. _Writing an Extractor: http://furius.ca/nabu/doc/nabu-extractor.html
224 .. _pickle writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/blais/pickle_writer/
225 .. _Texinfo Writer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/texinfo-writer/README.html
226 .. _confluence CMS: http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence
227 .. _deploy-rst: https://github.com/netresearch/deploy-rst
233 Convert other formats to reStructuredText:
235 * sxw2rest_, by Trent W. Buck, converts StarOffice XML Writer (SXW)
236 files to reStructuredText.
238 * xml2rst_, an XSLT stylesheet written by Stefan Merten, converts XML
239 dumps of the document tree (e.g. created with rst2xml.py) back to
242 * xhtml2rest_, written by Antonios Christofides, is a simple utility
243 to convert XHTML to reStructuredText.
245 * Sphinx_ includes a `LaTeX to Rst converter
246 <http://svn.python.org/projects/doctools/converter/>`__ in its source code
247 (trimmed to importing the old Python docs).
249 * Pandoc_ can read Markdown and (subsets of) HTML, and LaTeX and export to
250 (amongst others) reStructuredText.
252 * PySource_, by Tony Ibbs, is an experimental Python source Reader.
253 There is some related code in David Goodger's sandbox
254 (pysource_reader_) and a `Python Source Reader`_ document.
256 .. _sxw2rest: http://twb.ath.cx/~twb/darcs/sxw2rest/
257 .. _xml2rst: http://www.merten-home.de/FreeSoftware/xml2rst/index.html
258 .. _xhtml2rest: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/wiemann/xhtml2rest/
260 .. _PySource: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/tibs/pysource/
261 .. _pysource_reader: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/davidg/pysource_reader/
262 .. _Python Source Reader: http://docutils.sf.net/docs/dev/pysource.html
268 Extend the reStructuredText syntax or the features of Docutils.
269 More extensions are in the `Docutils Sandbox`_.
271 * Beni Cherniavsky has written a generic `preprocessing module`_ for
272 roles and/or directives and built preprocessors for TeX math for
273 both LaTeX and HTML output on top of it.
275 * Beni Cherniavsky maintains a Makefile_ for driving Docutils, hoping
276 to handle everything one might do with Docutils.
278 * The `ASCII art to SVG converter`_ (aafigure) developed by
279 Chris Liechti can parse ASCII art images, embedded in reST documents and
280 output an image. This would mean that simple illustrations could be
281 embedded as ASCII art in the reST source and still look nice when
282 converted to e.g. HTML
284 * zot4rst_ by Erik Hetzner is an extension that allows users to write reST
285 documents using citations from a Zotero_ library.
287 * Quick and easy publishing reStructuredText source files as blog posts
288 on blogger.com is possible with `rst2blogger`_ .
290 .. _preprocessing module: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/cben/rolehack/
291 .. _Makefile: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/cben/make/
292 .. _ASCII art to SVG converter:
293 http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/cliechti/aafigure/
294 .. _zot4rst: http://e6h.org/~egh/hg/zotero-plain
295 .. _Zotero: http://www.zotero.org/
296 .. _rst2blogger: https://github.com/dhellmann/rst2blogger#readme
302 Applications using docutils/reStructuredText and helper applications.
304 * For Wikis, please see the `FAQ entry about Wikis`_.
306 * For Blogs (Weblogs), please see the `FAQ entry about Blogs`_.
308 * `Project Gutenberg`_ uses docutils, but with it's own xetex- and nroff-writer
311 .. _FAQ entry about Wikis: http://docutils.sf.net/FAQ.html#are-there-any-wikis-that-use-restructuredtext-syntax
312 .. _FAQ entry about Blogs: http://docutils.sf.net/FAQ.html#are-there-any-weblog-blog-projects-that-use-restructuredtext-syntax
313 .. _Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org
319 * Sphinx_ extends the ReStructuredText syntax to better support the
320 documentation of Software (and other) *projects* (but other documents
321 can be written with it too).
323 Since version 2.6, the `Python documentation`_ is based on
324 reStructuredText and Sphinx.
326 * Trac_, a project management and bug/issue tracking system, supports
327 `using reStructuredText
328 <http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/WikiRestructuredText>`__ as an
329 alternative to wiki markup.
331 * PyLit_ provides a bidirectional text <--> code converter for *literate
332 programming with reStructuredText*.
334 * If you are developing a Qt app, rst2qhc_ lets you generate the whole help
335 automatically from reStructuredText. That includes keywords, TOC,
336 multiple manuals per project, filters, project file, collection project
339 .. _Python documentation: http://docs.python.org/
340 .. _Trac: http://trac.edgewall.org/
341 .. _PyLit: http://pylit.berlios.de
342 .. _rst2qhc: http://rst2qhc.googlecode.com
348 * Plone_ and Zope_ both support reStructuredText markup.
349 * ZReST_, by Richard Jones, is a "ReStructuredText Document for Zope_"
350 application that is complete and ready to install.
352 .. _Plone: http://plone.org/
353 .. _Zope: http://www.zope.org/
354 .. _ZReST: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/richard/ZReST/
360 * rst2html5_ transform restructuredtext documents to html5 + twitter's
361 bootstrap css, deck.js or reveal.js
363 * landslide_ generates HTML5 slideshows from markdown, ReST, or textile.
365 * `native support for S5 <slide-shows.s5.html>`_.
367 * The `PythonPoint interface`_ by Richard Jones produces PDF
368 presentations using ReportLabs' PythonPoint_.
370 * rst2beamer_ generates a LaTeX source that uses the `Beamer` document class.
371 Can be converted to PDF slides with pdfLaTeX/XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX.
373 * InkSlide_ quick and easy presentations using Inkscape_. InkSlide uses
374 reStructuredText for markup, although it renders only a subset of rst.
376 * rst2outline_ translates a reStructuredText document to a plain text
377 outline. This can then be transformed to PowerPoint.
379 * Pandoc_ can also be used to produce slides, as shown in this
380 `Pandoc Slides Demo`_
382 .. _PythonPoint: http://www.reportlab.org/python_point.html
383 .. _PythonPoint interface: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/richard/pythonpoint/
384 .. _rst2beamer: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/rst2beamer/
385 .. _Inkscape: http://inkscape.org/
386 .. _InkSlide: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InkSlide
387 .. _rst2html5: https://github.com/marianoguerra/rst2html5
388 .. _landslide: https://github.com/adamzap/landslide
389 .. _rst2outline: http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/rst2outline/
390 .. _Pandoc Slides Demo:
391 http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/demo/example9/producing-slide-shows-with-pandoc