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+---
+language: restructured text (RST)
+contributors:
+ - ["DamienVGN", "https://github.com/martin-damien"]
+ - ["Andre Polykanine", "https://github.com/Oire"]
+filename: restructuredtext.rst
+---
+
+RST is a file format formely created by Python community to write documentation (and so, is part of Docutils).
+
+RST files are simple text files with lightweight syntax (comparing to HTML).
+
+
+## Installation
+
+To use Restructured Text, you will have to install [Python](http://www.python.org) and the `docutils` package.
+
+`docutils` can be installed using the commandline:
+
+```bash
+$ easy_install docutils
+```
+
+If your system has `pip`, you can use it too:
+
+```bash
+$ pip install docutils
+```
+
+
+## File syntax
+
+A simple example of the file syntax:
+
+```
+.. Lines starting with two dots are special commands. But if no command can be found, the line is considered as a comment
+
+=========================================================
+Main titles are written using equals signs over and under
+=========================================================
+
+Note that there must be as many equals signs as title characters.
+
+Title are underlined with equals signs too
+==========================================
+
+Subtitles with dashes
+---------------------
+
+And sub-subtitles with tildes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+You can put text in *italic* or in **bold**, you can "mark" text as code with double backquote ``: ``print()``.
+
+Lists are as simple as in Markdown:
+
+- First item
+- Second item
+ - Sub item
+
+or
+
+* First item
+* Second item
+ * Sub item
+
+Tables are really easy to write:
+
+=========== ========
+Country Capital
+=========== ========
+France Paris
+Japan Tokyo
+=========== ========
+
+More complex tabless can be done easily (merged columns and/or rows) but I suggest you to read the complete doc for this :)
+
+There are multiple ways to make links:
+
+- By adding an underscore after a word : Github_ and by adding the target URL after the text (this way has the advantage to not insert unnecessary URLs inside readable text).
+- By typing a full comprehensible URL : https://github.com/ (will be automatically converted to a link)
+- By making a more Markdown-like link: `Github <https://github.com/>`_ .
+
+.. _Github https://github.com/
+
+```
+
+
+## How to Use It
+
+RST comes with docutils where you have `rst2html`, for example:
+
+```bash
+$ rst2html myfile.rst output.html
+```
+
+*Note : On some systems the command could be rst2html.py*
+
+But there are more complex applications that use the RST format:
+
+- [Pelican](http://blog.getpelican.com/), a static site generator
+- [Sphinx](http://sphinx-doc.org/), a documentation generator
+- and many others
+
+
+## Readings
+
+- [Official quick reference](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html)