reStructuredText Hello World

Aug 26, 2011

This is a great tool for creating html pages and presentations and is supported in many languages (I have played with Java and Python tools). This is a Python rst tool:

Download: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
Create a text file 1.txt as:

=====
Title
=====
Subtitle
--------
This is the actual content

- a
- b

1. a
2. b

**what**
   hi

Goto tools folder and do: ./rst2html.py 1.txt output.html

More info on: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/README.html#quick-start

Quick syntax reference:

http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html

http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickstart.html