#restructuredtext — Public Fediverse posts

#Papirus 's icon for #ReText is annoying me right now. I'll just do something about that.

By the way, is there an accepted logo for #reStructuredText anywhere, other than the LaTeX-like wordmark on Wikipedia?

#Python #YearOfTheLinuxDesktop

I just published a Sphinx extension to add colspan and rowspan to .rst tables: https://pypi.org/project/rst-table-span/

#python #docutils #sphinx #rst #reStructuredText

#Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead
https://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/

Here's my article where I summarize the subtle and no so subtle downsides when you choose Markdown for your information instead of a different markup syntax that doesn't come with all the downsides of #MD.

#publicvoit #orgdown #orgmode #LML #pandoc #rst #restructuredtext #asciidoc #Wikitext #BBCode #Creole #Crossmark #Djot #CommonMark #lockin

@pandoc

Actually, this really looks well! I have never been able to manage to write #groff documents, but this looks really well with plain #reStructuredText (or #rst) documents.

ReText: Ein einfacher Markup-Editor

ReText ist ein leichtgewichtiger Editor. Er erleichtert das Arbeiten mit Markdown und reStructuredText.

#markdown #reStructuredText #ReText #Editor #Schreiben #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/retext

Crear una libreta artesanal A7 para capturar ideas en papel

#A7 #Artesanal #Blog #hispterPDA #Libreta #Moleskine #papel #Pocketmod #reStructuredText

https://osiux.com/capturar-ideas-en-papel-de-moleskine-hispterpda-pocketmod-y-libreta-artesanal.html

@colepeters @remotesynth

There are parallels here for tech writers too, with #FrameMaker, #DocBook, #AsciiDoc, #ReStructuredText or #DITA.

Each tool we learn teaches us something about the others.

Alabaster is now officially part of the sphinx-doc Github org! 🎉 https://github.com/sphinx-doc/alabaster

I'll still keep my fingertips in, but hopefully this removes me as a _bottleneck_ for development.

Big thanks to Adam Turner (AA-Turner on GH) for shepherding the process ❤️

#Python #Sphinx #documentation #Alabaster #ReStructuredText

#Orgdown (= #OrgMode Syntax) Is One of the Most Reasonable #Markup Languages to Use for Text https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/

#publicvoit #LML #markdown #AsciiDoc #Wikitext #reStructuredText #rst #pandoc

#rst2pdf is a #rST to #PDF converter.

rst2pdf compiles #reStructuredText into PDF files. rst2pdf supports all of the regular directives from rST, but adds syntax highlighting, counting index numbers, and a subset of LaTeX. rst2pdf's page formatting, quote characters, etc., are controlled using a configuration file and stylesheets. rst2pdf supports extensions.

Website 🔗️: https://rst2pdf.org/

apt 📦️: rst2pdf

#free #opensource #foss #fossmendation #programming

Sphinx: Die Befreiung von der Kommandozeile (reStructuredText und Sphinx für Literaten)

Mein Projekt »#reStructuredText und #Sphinx für Literaten« (reST and Sphinx for Poets) geht weiter. Gestern abend bin gehöriges Stück vorangekommen. Sphinx wird ja normalerweise von der Kommandozeile aus bedient, eine Arbeitsweise, die bei meinen Klienten (eine Mixtur aus Geisteswissenschaftlern und Verwaltungsangestellten) eher Unverständnis und Widerwillen hervorruft. http://blog.schockwellenreiter.de/2020/04/2020040902.html #TextMate

#ReText is a #markup editor.

ReText is a text editor for #Markdown and #reStructuredText. ReText provides quick access to various text elements like headers, lists, and styles like bold and italics. ReText automatically continues elements like lists, and has a table mode for making automatically updating tables. ReText can export to HTML if needed.

Website 🔗️: https://github.com/retext-project/retext

apt 📦️: retext

#free #opensource #foss #fossmendations