sphinx-rst-builder 0.0.1

Sphinx reStructuredText builder

Sphinx reStructuredText Builder

Sphinx extension to build reST (reStructuredText) files.

This extension is in particular useful to use in combination with the autodoc extension to automatically generate documentation for use by any rst parser (such as the GitHub wiki).

In itself, the extension is fairly straightforward – it takes the parsed reST file from Sphinx and outputs it as reST.

Requirements

• Sphinx 2.0 or later

• Python 3.6 or later

Installing

Using pip

pip install sphinx-rst-builder

Manual

git clone https://github.com/davidfritzsche/sphinx-rst-builder.git cd sphinx-rst-builder python setup.py install

If you want to take a look and have a try, you can put the reST builder in an extension subdirectory, and adjust sys.path to tell Sphinx where to look for it:

• Add the extensions directory to the path in conf.py. E.g.

Usage

• Set the builder as a extension in conf.py:

• Run sphinx-build with target rst:

Configuration

The following four configuration variables are defined by sphinxcontrib.restbuilder:

rst_file_suffix

This is the file name suffix for generated reST files. The default is ".rst".

rst_link_suffix

Suffix for generated links to reST files. The default is whatever rst_file_suffix is set to.

rst_file_transform

Function to translate a docname to a filename. By default, returns docname + rst_file_suffix.

rst_link_transform

Function to translate a docname to a (partial) URI. By default, returns docname + rst_link_suffix.

Further Reading

• Sphinx

• reStructuredText

Feedback

The reST builder is in a preliminary state. It’s not (yet) widely used, so any feedback is particularly welcome.

Changelog

sphinx-rst-builder 0.0.1 (21 June 2019)

• Renamed from sphinxcontrib.restbuilder to sphinx-rst-builder

• Code location: https://github.com/davidfritzsche/sphinx-rst-builder

restbuilder 0.2 (7 June 2018)

• Code moved to https://gitub.com/sphinx-contrib/restbuilder

• Python 3 compatible (Nicola Musatti)

• Adhere to rst_indent-specified indentation (Matthew Planchard)

• Fixed issue where links were converted to plaintext (Matthew Planchard)

restbuilder 0.1 (25 August 2013)

• Code submitted to sphinx-contrib https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx-contrib

• Released as sphinxcontrib-restbuilder

• Added basic documentation

• Unsupported/unknown tags are not printed, but send to log facility.

restbuilder (no version) (28 April 2012)

• First release as port of a documentation generator in the NBT package https://github.com/twoolie/NBT/commit/eefbd26c422a0e5f3c89e84fabcfb951a11722b0

BSD-2-Clause License

Copyright (c) 2019 by David Fritzsche and contributors.

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Contributors

Freek Dijkstra (macfreek) G. Nicholas d’Andrea (gnidan) Jeffrey Lo (jeffrey_lo) Matthew Planchard (mplanchard) Nicola Musatti (nmusatti) David Fritzsche (davidfritzsche)