Format

reStructuredText

Summary

Name

reStructuredText

Identifiers

PUID: fmt/1565

Format type

Text (Mark-up)

Description

reStructuredText files are in effect plain text documents, formatted with a lightweight markup language, to produce more easily readable documents such as pdf. Rst files are used primarily by members of the Python programming community to create technical documentation for Python libraries. They are generated by running Docutils (https://docutils.sourceforge.io/), an open source text processing system which can turn plain text files, into useful formats, within Python.

Note

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReStructuredText https://docutils.sourceforge.io/rst.html

File extensions

rst

Source

Norwegian Unix Users Group / Norwegian Unix Users Group

Changelog

• Added in V100

  Release date

  16 December 2021

  reStructuredText: Signature researched and samples provided by Norwegian Unix Users Group.

  reStructuredText: Full entry added. Submitted by Norwegian Unix Users Group.