We all love rst and the ability to generate any format, but the rst2html tool generates really basic html and css.

This tool will generate newer, nicer, more readable markup and provide ways to modify the output with extensions like nice css thanks to twitter's bootstrap css or online presentations with deck.js

use it

to generate a basic html document:

rst2html5 examples/slides.rst > clean.html

to generate a set of slides using deck.js:

rst2html5 --deck-js --pretty-print-code --embed-content examples/slides.rst > deck.html

to generate a set of slides using reveal.js:

rst2html5 --jquery --reveal-js --pretty-print-code examples/slides.rst > reveal.html

to generate a set of slides using impress.js:

rst2html5 --stylesheet-path=html5css3/thirdparty/impressjs/css/impress-demo.css --impress-js examples/impress.rst > output/impress.html

to generate a page using bootstrap:

rst2html5 --bootstrap-css --pretty-print-code --jquery --embed-content examples/slides.rst > bootstrap.html

to higlight code with pygments:

rst2html5 --pygments examples/codeblock.rst > code.html

note that you will have to add the stylesheet for the code to actually highlight, this just does the code parsing and html transformation.

to embed images inside the html file to have a single .html file to distribute add the --embed-images option.

to add mathjax support:

rst2html5 --mathjax examples/mathjax.rst mathjax.html

post processors support optional parameters, they are passed with a command line option with the same name as the post processor appending "-opts" at the end, for example to change the revealjs theme you can do:

rst2html5 --jquery --reveal-js --reveal-js-opts theme=serif examples/slides.rst > reveal.html

you can also pass the base path to the theme css file:

rst2html5 --jquery --reveal-js --reveal-js-opts theme=serif,themepath=~/mytheme examples/slides.rst > reveal.html

it will look at the theme at ~/mytheme/serif.css

options are passed as a comma separated list of key value pairs separated with an equal sign, values are parsed as json, if parsing fails they are passed as strings, for example here is an example of options:

--some-processor-opts theme=serif,count=4,verbose=true,foo=null

if a key is passed more than once that parameter is passed to the processor as a list of values, note that if only one value is passed it's passed as it is, the convenience function as_list is provided to handle this case if you want to always receive a list.

to add custom js files to the resulting file you can use the --add-js post processor like this:

rst2html5 slides.rst --add-js --add-js-opts path=foo.js,path=bar.js

that command will add foo.js and bar.js as scripts in the resulting html file.

rst2html5 tools - RestructuredText to HTML5 + bootstrap css

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