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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, LaTeX,
10 man-pages, open-document or XML.
11 It includes reStructuredText_, the easy to read, easy to use,
12 what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language.
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19 **To get up & running quickly**, see the Quick-Start_ section of the
22 All **documentation** can be reached from the `Docutils Project
23 Documentation Overview`_.
25 To the developers of an open source project, **feedback** is a great
26 motivator and is very welcome. We also rely on feedback for
27 determining what features to implement. Thus, if you tell us what you
28 need, you may just get it! Please post any feedback to the
29 Docutils-users_ mailing list.
31 All **discussion** about Docutils takes place on the `mailing lists`_.
33 If you find a **bug**, please file a `bug report`_ or send email to
34 the Docutils-users_ mailing list. **Patch** submissions should be
35 filed in the `patch tracker`_ (preferred) or sent to Docutils-develop_
36 (where you will be asked to send them to the `patch tracker`_).
38 We welcome all kinds of **contributions**. There's a `To Do list`_
39 full of interesting ideas awaiting a champion. If you have any
40 questions regarding how to extend Docutils, please feel free to ask on
41 the Docutils-develop_ mailing list.
43 .. NO DONATE on new sf platform
44 Please also consider **donating** to Docutils: |donate|.
46 The only **requirement** for running Docutils is Python_
48 * After Docutil 0.14 Python 2.4 and Python 2.5 support will be dropped.
49 * Docutils 0.10 dropped Python 2.3 support.
50 * For Docutils 0.5, Python 2.2.1+ is required.
51 * Up to Docutils 0.4, Python 2.1 is required.
53 * From version 0.6, Docutils is compatible with Python 3 (see README_ for
56 Docutils is in active development and APIs should be considered
57 **experimental** subject to change at any time. Although *any time* is a time
58 after serious thought and discussion.
66 Snapshots are supported by sourceforge directly.
67 The whole trunk is packed docutils, sandbox, prest/perl and web:
69 https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/code/HEAD/tarball
71 or only the docutils package:
73 http://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/docutils/
75 Click the download snapshot button.
77 The snapshosts listed below are created on website updates.
79 We recommend that you use a snapshot_ from `Docutils' Subversion
80 repository`_. The snapshots usually contain *more features* and *fewer bugs*
81 than the "official" releases |---| they're not only for developers!
83 The latest **release package** is `docutils-0.13.1.tgz`__. It was
84 released on 2016-12-09 and is mostly intended for distributors. See
85 the `release notes`_ for a list of changes since the previous release
88 __ http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/docutils/docutils-0.13.1.tar.gz?download
89 .. _release notes: RELEASE-NOTES.html#id38
91 The Sandbox_ contains experimental, contributed code. You can download a
92 complete `snapshot of the Sandbox`_ or `browse the Sandbox`_ to download a
97 Web site, tracker and mailing lists and subversion repository hosted by |SourceForge|_.
102 Google should index the mailing lists: `Docutils-users
103 <http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.text.docutils.user/last=/force_load=t>`__,
105 <http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.text.docutils.devel/last=/force_load=t>`__,
106 and `Docutils-checkins
107 <http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.text.docutils.cvs/last=/force_load=t>`__.
109 .. |---| unicode:: U+02014 .. em dash
111 .. _Deploying Docutils Securely: docs/howto/security.html
113 http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyCon2006/Sprints/DocutilsSprint
114 .. _PyCon 2006: http://us.pycon.org/TX2006/HomePage
115 .. _dugui: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/dugui/
116 .. _LaTeX math support:
117 http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/latex_directive/
120 http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docutils-snapshot.tgz
121 .. _snapshot of the Sandbox:
122 http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docutils-sandbox-snapshot.tgz
123 .. _browse the Sandbox:
124 http://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/sandbox/
126 .. _bug report: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/BUGS.html
127 .. _patch tracker: http://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/patches/
128 .. _mailing lists: docs/user/mailing-lists.html
129 .. _Docutils-users: docs/user/mailing-lists.html#docutils-users
130 .. _Docutils-develop: docs/user/mailing-lists.html#docutils-develop
131 .. _sandbox: sandbox/README.html
132 .. _reStructuredText: rst.html
133 .. _project files page:
134 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=38414
135 .. _To Do list: docs/dev/todo.html
136 .. _README: README.html
137 .. _Quick-Start: README.html#quick-start
138 .. _Docutils Project Documentation Overview: docs/index.html
139 .. _Docutils' Subversion repository: docs/dev/repository.html
140 .. |donate| image:: http://images.sourceforge.net/images/project-support.jpg
141 :target: http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=38414
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