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out to HTML, PDF, and a variety of other formats. It was created as a part of the python docutils project. | out to HTML, PDF, and a variety of other formats. It was created as a part of the python docutils project. | ||
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Latest revision as of 19:54, 6 June 2022
ReStructured Text is a human readable text format that renders out to HTML, PDF, and a variety of other formats. It was created as a part of the python docutils project.
TODO:
this should be split into pages separating tools from syntax
Documentation
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html Cheat Sheet http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html official documentation
Syntax
I'll be really brief here, the official documentation is fantastic.
Headers
Headers are defined by an unindented string, underlined by the same number of characters. Subtitles, are the same. The characters used to specify an underline do not
My Page Title ............. level 2 title ============= level 3 title -------------- level 2 title again ===================Bold, Italic
* italic text * ** bold text **Lists
- list item - list item 2 - sublist item - a single newline indicates a new list 1) enumerated list 2) enumerated list 2 #) variable numimages
.. image:: /path/to/image.jpgNamed Links
A sentence with links to Wikipedia_ and the `Linux kernel archive`_. .. _Wikipedia: http://www.wikipedia.org/ .. _Linux kernel archive: http://www.kernel.org/Code Blocks
:: this is a litteral codeblock without any syntax highlighting... code-block:: python def something(): """ some doctag """ return vartables
================= ===== **module desc** stuff ================= ===== lkjasdmodule delkjadssc module desc test something ================= =====comments
.. this is a comment
Exporting to PDF
Unfortunately, this is not a straightforward process, but it is simple enough
## if you have a soft background-color, you'll want to change ## it back to white (in the css, or html file) sudo pacman -S wkhtmltopdf sudo pip install rst2html rst2html --stylesheet=$python/libhtml/CSS/pers_rst.css resume.rst resume.html wkhtmltopdf --page-size Letter \ -T 10mm -B 10mm \ resume.html resume.pdf## if you are experiencing issues with pixellated fonts, ## it is likely that you are either ## a) not using a true-type font ## b) your true type font is not being found, and a differnet font is being used in it's place ## ## See solution here: https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/issues/2193#### /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <!-- Reject bitmap fonts --> <selectfont> <rejectfont> <pattern> <patelt name="scalable"><bool>false</bool></patelt> </pattern> </rejectfont> </selectfont> </fontconfig>ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf