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5 :Author: Engelbert Gruber
6 :Contact: grubert@users.sourceforge.net
9 :Copyright: This document has been placed in the public domain.
17 Producing LaTeX code from reST input could be done in at least two ways:
19 a. Transform the internal markup into corresponding LaTeX markup e.g.
20 a section title would be written as ```\section{this section ...}``.
21 b. Using LaTeX as a typesetting system to produce desired paperwork
22 without caring about loosing document structure information.
24 The former might be preferable, but limits to LaTeXs capabilities, so
25 in reality it is a mix. The reality is that LaTeX has a titlepage with
26 title, author and date, by default only title is used. Author and date
27 are shown in the docutils docinfo table and set to blank for LaTeX.
28 To get author and date set by LaTeX specify option "use-LaTeX-docinfo".
33 Configuration can be done in two ways (again):
35 1. Options to the docutils tool: e.g. language selection.
36 2. Options to LaTeX via the stylesheet file.
38 The generated LaTeX documents should be kept processable by a standard
39 LaTeX installation (if such a thing exists), therefore the document
40 contains default settings. To allow *overwriting defaults* the stylesheet
43 Run ``rst2latex.py --help`` to see the command-line options, or have look in
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48 Setting/Config Entry Description
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50 papersize Default: a4paper. Paper geometry can be changed
51 using ``\geometry{xxx}`` entries.
55 * a4paper, b3paper, letterpaper, executivepaper,
57 * landscape, portrait, twoside.
59 and a ton of other option setting margins.
63 \geometry{a5paper,landscape}
64 --------------------- ------------------------------------------------
65 paragraph indent By default LaTeX indents the forst line in a
66 paragraph. The following lines set indentation
67 to zero but add a vertical space between
70 \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
71 \setlength{\parskip}{6pt plus 2pt minus 1pt}
72 --------------------- ------------------------------------------------
73 admonitionwidth The width for admonitions.
74 Default: 0.9*textwidth, this can be changed
77 \setlength{\admonitionwidth}{0.7\textwidth}
78 --------------------- ------------------------------------------------
79 docinfowidth The width for the docinfo table.
80 Default: 0.9*textwidth, changed to e.g.::
82 \setlength{\docinfowidth}{0.7\textwidth}
83 --------------------- ------------------------------------------------
84 rubric style The header contains the definition of a new
85 LaTeX command rubric. Inserting::
87 \renewcommand{\rubric}[1]{\subsection*{
88 ~\hfill {\color{red} #1} \hfill ~}}
90 sets rubric to subsection style in red.
92 Default: subsection style italic.
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94 font selection see below
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100 * Selection of LaTeX fontsize.
101 * Assumed reST linelength for table width setting.
106 When generating pdf-files from LaTeX, use the pdflatex command, the files
107 are a lot smaller if postscript fonts are used. To do so put
108 ``\usepackage{times}`` into the stylesheet.
110 It is said that the typewriter font in computer modern font, the default
111 LaTeX font package, is too heavy compared to the others. There is a package
112 or some commands too fix this, which i currently cannot find.
114 Some people diagnose a similar unbalance for the postscript fonts, the
115 package to fix this is ``\usepackage{pslatex}``.
116 pslatex in contrast to the standard LaTeX fonts has a bold typewriter font.
121 A table of figures can be generated by a command directly to LaTeX::
127 LaTeX also has a command ``\listoftables``.
132 If section numbering and LaTeX table of contents is used LaTeX and
133 docutils will number sections. To switch off displaying of LaTeX's
134 numbers one has to add following lines to the stylesheet ::
136 % no section number display
138 \def\@seccntformat#1{}
141 \renewcommand{\numberline}[1]{}
144 Commands directly to LaTeX
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147 By means of the reST-raw directive one can give commands directly to
148 LaTeX, e.g. forcing a page break::
155 Or setting formulas in LaTeX::
159 $$x^3 + 3x^2a + 3xa^2 + a^3,$$
162 Or making a colorbox: If someone wants to get a red background for a textblock,
163 she/he can put \definecolor{bg}{rgb}{.9,0,0} into style.tex and in
164 reStructuredText do something like this::
167 Nobody expects the spanish inquisition.
170 .. |begincolorbox| raw:: LaTeX
174 \\parbox{0.985\\linewidth}{
176 .. |endcolorbox| raw:: LaTeX
185 Currently maketitle only shows the title and subtitle, date and author are shown
186 in the docinfo table.
188 To change the titlepage layout, e.g. see fancyhdr, one must redefine the
189 maketitle command in the stylesheet::
191 \renewcommand{\maketitle}{
194 \textsf{TITLE \@title} \\
200 ``\@title`` contains the title.
205 Open to be fixed or open to discussion.
210 Does not work, or only in verbatim or verb.
215 :Tablewidth: reST-documents line length is assumed to be 80 characters. The
216 tablewidth is set relative to this value. If someone produces
217 documents with line length of 132 this will fail.
219 Table width is tried to fit in page even if it is wider than
220 the assumed linewidth, still assumed linewidth is a hook.
222 * In tools.txt the option tables right column, there should be some more spacing
223 between the description and the next paragraph "Default:".
225 Paragraph separation in tables is hairy.
226 see http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=struttab
228 - The strut solution did not work.
229 - setting extrarowheight added ad top of row not between paragraphs in
230 a cell. ALTHOUGH i set it to 2pt because, text is too close to the topline.
231 - baselineskip/stretch does not help.
232 * Should there be two hlines after table head and on table end ?
233 * Table: multicol cells are always {l}.
234 * Table heads and footer for longtable (firstpage lastpage ..).
235 * Longtable does not work with multirow
236 * Tabularx says "do not use any multicolmn which spans any X column.
237 maybe use ltxtable instead of tabularx (Longtable combined with tabularx).
238 but ltxtable disables longtable's multicolumn.
239 * Table cells with multirow and multicolumn
240 * table-style booktabs: booktabs.sty 1.00 does not work with longtable.
245 * The underscore ``_`` does not work in literal-blocks, has different width.
248 - Underline a blank ``\underline{ }`` to low, as in windows-xp.
249 And elsewhere use this.
250 - Escape it ``{\_}`` to narrow
251 - Subscript a hyphen ``$_{\tt-}$`` too wide and thin
252 - ``$_{-}$`` the same.
254 * recongize LaTeX and replace by ``\LaTeX``.
255 * Support embed-stylesheet.
256 * the ^-sign is problematic: using mathmode wedge is usually the wrong font.
258 * Maybe add end of line after term in definition list. see
259 http://roundup.sf.net/doc-0.5/features.pdf
260 * Pdfbookmark level 4 (and greater) does not work (might be settable but OTOH).
261 * center subsection{Abstract} gives a LaTeX error here.
262 ``! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.``
263 Committed a HACK: centering by hfill.
264 * Document errors are also too silent.
265 * Use optionlist for docinfo, the table does only work for single page.
266 * Consider peter funk's hooks for TeXpert:
268 * Define his own document preamble (including the choice to
269 choose his own documentclass. That would make the ``--documentclass``
270 option superfluous). I suggest to call this option ``--preamble``
271 * Use two additional hooks to put additional stuff just behind the
272 ``\begin{document}`` and just before the ``\end{document}`` macros.
273 Typical uses would be ``\tableofcontents``, ``\listoffigures`` and
274 ``\appendix``, ``\makeindex``, ``\makeglossary`` and some such
275 for larger documents.
277 * Hyphens: co-developers should be co--developers ?
278 * The indentional problematic error in test.txt is not referring anywhere.
279 * Footnotes are not all on the same page (as in tools/test.txt) and do not link back
281 * No link to system errors.
282 * Hyperlinks are not hyphenated this leads to bad spacing. see tools/test.txt
283 2.14 directives directives
284 * Meta keywords into pdf ?
285 * Pagestyle headings does not work, when sections are starred.
286 * For additional docinfo items: the field_body is inserted as text, i.e. no
288 * Multiple author entries in docinfo (same thing as in html).
289 * pslatex has not textbackslash in bold ?
290 * make use (but test against pslatex) ::
292 \textbackslash \backslash \
296 \textasciicircum \hat ^
297 \textasciitilde \tilde ~
298 \textbullet \bullet gefüllter Kreis auf halber Höhe
299 \textperiodcentered \cdot ·
300 \textvisiblespace (n.v.) sichtbares Leerzeichen