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---
language: restructured text
contributors:
- ["DamienVGN", "https://github.com/martin-damien"]
filename: restructuredtext.rst
---
RST is file format formely created by Python community to write documentation (and so, is part of Docutils).
RST files are simple text files with lightweight syntaxe (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 have `pip`, you can use it too:
```bash
$ pip install docutils
```
## File syntaxe
A simple example of the file syntax:
```rst
.. Line with two dotes 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 theire must be as many equals signs as title characters.
Title are underlined with equals signs too
==========================================
Subtitles with dashes
---------------------
And sub-subtitles with tilde
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You can put text in *italic* or in **bold**, you can "mark" text as code with double backquote ``: ``print()``.
Lists are as simple as 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 complexe tabless can be done easily (merged columns and/or rows) but I suggest you to read the complete doc for this :)
Their is multiple ways to make links:
- By adding an underscore after a word : Github_ and by adding the target after the text (this have the advantage to not insert un-necessary URL inside the readed text).
- By typing a full comprehensible URL : https://github.com/ (will be automatically converted in link)
- By making a more "markdown" link: `Github <https://github.com/>`_ .
.. _Github https://github.com/
```
## How to use it
RST comes with docutils in which you have `rst2html` for exemple:
```bash
$ rst2html myfile.rst output.html
```
*Note : On some systems the command could be rst2html.py*
But their is more complexe applications that uses RST file 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)
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