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Restructured Text to Anything. Slick set of online tools for converting Restructured Text (one of the more mature wiki-style markup languages) to HTML or PDF. Includes a nice looking API. Powered by Django.

Posted 13th September 2007 at 3:54 pm

Tagged django, html, pdf, python, restructuredtext

3 comments

Hmm I do not share your opinon on "one of the more mature wiki-style markup languages". I agree that it may be powerfull but I find it quite hard to learn (or doc is not user-friendly) compare to textile, trac wiki syntax, etc.

Interesting link anyway, thanks !

NiCoS - 13th September 2007 16:47 - #
I meant mature as in "it's been around for 5 years and there's lots of software that can manipulate it". It's not as easy to learn as some of the competition, but it's far more powerful - kind of like docbook compared to HTML. See also Jacob's comment on programming.reddit about the ReST toolchain.
Simon Willison - 13th September 2007 17:44 - #
Hmm ok I misunderstood you on the sense of "mature". So this way, I agree.

I also agree with you and jacob on its power. I hope that rst2a will reach its goal to make reSt accessible to any user.

NiCoS - 14th September 2007 12:35 - #