Discussion:
[Docutils-users] How to see the output of my rst text file
Deshpande, Vinita
2016-08-05 06:13:44 UTC
Permalink
Hi,
I have created a txt file,with some content, which is formatted using rst (for ex:, headings using "=", table etc). I would like to see, how this would look as an html page. Can I please know how to do this?
Sample txt file content:

==========
My heading
==========

Introduction
~~~~~~~~~~~~
My custome introduction

.. table:: **Default flavors**

============ ========= =============== =============
Flavor VCPUs Disk (in GB) RAM (in MB)
============ ========= =============== =============
m1.tiny 1 1 512
m1.small 1 20 2048
m1.medium 2 40 4096
m1.large 4 80 8192
m1.xlarge 8 160 16384
============ ========= =============== =============


I would like to know, how this would appear after formatting is applied.

Thanks,
Vinita
Francesco Ariis
2016-08-05 15:04:29 UTC
Permalink
Post by Deshpande, Vinita
I have created a txt file,with some content, which is formatted using
rst (for ex:, headings using "=", table etc). I would like to see, how
this would look as an html page. Can I please know how to do this?
Hello Vinita,
I use pandoc to convert from/to .rst (and a bunch of other formats).

pandoc -o file.html file.rst

Remember that you can add a .css stylesheet to modify the formatting
as you see fit.
Bram Geron
2016-08-05 16:39:40 UTC
Permalink
I use Sphinx, which (if you're interested in it) can output a tree view
if you build 'make pseudoxml'.

--
Bram Geron
Doctoral researcher in computer science
Post by Francesco Ariis
Post by Deshpande, Vinita
I have created a txt file,with some content, which is formatted using
rst (for ex:, headings using "=", table etc). I would like to see, how
this would look as an html page. Can I please know how to do this?
Hello Vinita,
I use pandoc to convert from/to .rst (and a bunch of other formats).
pandoc -o file.html file.rst
Remember that you can add a .css stylesheet to modify the formatting
as you see fit.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Docutils-users mailing list
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/docutils-users
Please use "Reply All" to reply to the list.
Guenter Milde
2016-08-05 18:32:51 UTC
Permalink
Post by Deshpande, Vinita
Hi,
I have created a txt file,with some content, which is formatted
using rst (for ex:, headings using "=", table etc). I would like to
see, how this would look as an html page.
Can I please know how to do this?
If you have Docutils installed, call

rst2html.py INPUT.rst OUTPUT.html

on some linux distributions, it is "rst2html" (without the extension .py),
use

rst2html --help

for command line options and the documentation at
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/index.html
...
Post by Deshpande, Vinita
I would like to know, how this would appear after formatting is applied.
See below for the output of the new rst2html5 converter (after indenting
the table).

Günter


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<meta name="generator" content="Docutils 0.13: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/" />
<title>My heading</title>
<style type="text/css">

/* Minimal style sheet for the HTML output of Docutils. */
/* */
/* :Author: Günter Milde, based on html4css1.css by David Goodger */
/* :Id: $Id: minimal.css 7952 2016-07-26 18:15:59Z milde $ */
/* :Copyright: © 2015 Günter Milde. */
/* :License: Released under the terms of the `2-Clause BSD license`_, */
/* in short: */
/* */
/* Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, */
/* are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright */
/* notice and this notice are preserved. */
/* */
/* This file is offered as-is, without any warranty. */
/* */
/* .. _2-Clause BSD license: http://www.spdx.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause */

/* This CSS2.1_ stylesheet defines rules for Docutils elements without */
/* HTML equivalent. It is required to make the document semantic visible. */
/* */
/* .. _CSS2.1: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2 */
/* .. _validates: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator$link */

/* alignment of text and inline objects inside block objects*/
.align-left { text-align: left; }
.align-right { text-align: right; }
.align-center { clear: both; text-align: center; }
.align-top { vertical-align: top; }
.align-middle { vertical-align: middle; }
.align-bottom { vertical-align: bottom; }

/* titles */
h1.title, p.subtitle {
text-align: center;
}
p.admonition-title,
p.topic-title,
p.sidebar-title,
p.rubric,
p.system-message-title {
font-weight: bold;
}
h1 + p.subtitle,
h1 + p.section-subtitle {
font-size: 1.6em;
}
h2 + p.section-subtitle { font-size: 1.28em; }
p.subtitle,
p.section-subtitle,
p.sidebar-subtitle {
font-weight: bold;
margin-top: -0.5em;
}
p.sidebar-title,
p.rubric {
font-size: larger;
}
p.rubric { color: maroon; }
a.toc-backref {
color: black;
text-decoration: none; }

/* Warnings, Errors */
div.caution p.admonition-title,
div.attention p.admonition-title,
div.danger p.admonition-title,
div.error p.admonition-title,
div.warning p.admonition-title,
div.system-messages h1,
div.error,
span.problematic,
p.system-message-title {
color: red;
}

/* inline literals */
span.docutils.literal {
font-family: monospace;
white-space: pre-wrap;
}
/* do not wraph at hyphens and similar: */
.literal > span.pre { white-space: nowrap; }

/* Lists */

/* compact and simple lists: no margin between items */
.simple li, .compact li,
.simple ul, .compact ul,
.simple ol, .compact ol,
.simple > li p, .compact > li p,
dl.simple > dd, dl.compact > dd {
margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
}

/* Table of Contents */
div.topic.contents { margin: 0; }
ul.auto-toc {
list-style-type: none;
padding-left: 1.5em; }

/* Enumerated Lists */
ol.arabic { list-style: decimal }
ol.loweralpha { list-style: lower-alpha }
ol.upperalpha { list-style: upper-alpha }
ol.lowerroman { list-style: lower-roman }
ol.upperroman { list-style: upper-roman }

dt span.classifier { font-style: italic }
dt span.classifier:before {
font-style: normal;
margin: 0.5em;
content: ":";
}

/* Field Lists and drivatives */
/* bold field name, content starts on the same line */
dl.field-list > dt,
dl.option-list > dt,
dl.docinfo > dt,
dl.footnote > dt,
dl.citation > dt {
font-weight: bold;
clear: left;
float: left;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
padding-right: 0.5em;
}
/* Offset for field content (corresponds to the --field-name-limit option) */
dl.field-list > dd,
dl.option-list > dd,
dl.docinfo > dd {
margin-left: 9em; /* ca. 14 chars in the test examples */
}
/* start field-body on a new line after long field names */
dl.field-list > dd > *:first-child,
dl.option-list > dd > *:first-child
{
display: inline-block;
width: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
/* field names followed by a colon */
dl.field-list > dt:after,
dl.docinfo > dt:after {
content: ":";
}

/* Bibliographic Fields (docinfo) */
pre.address { font: inherit; }
dd.authors > p { margin: 0; }

/* Option Lists */
dl.option-list { margin-left: 40px; }
dl.option-list > dt { font-weight: normal; }
span.option { white-space: nowrap; }

/* Footnotes and Citations */
dl.footnote.superscript > dd {margin-left: 1em; }
dl.footnote.brackets > dd {margin-left: 2em; }
dl > dt.label { font-weight: normal; }
a.footnote-reference.brackets:before,
dt.label > span.brackets:before { content: "["; }
a.footnote-reference.brackets:after,
dt.label > span.brackets:after { content: "]"; }
a.footnote-reference.superscript,
dl.footnote.superscript > dt.label {
vertical-align: super;
font-size: smaller;
}
dt.label > span.fn-backref { margin-left: 0.2em; }
dt.label > span.fn-backref > a { font-style: italic; }

/* Line Blocks */
div.line-block { display: block; }
div.line-block div.line-block {
margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-left: 40px;
}

/* Figures, Images, and Tables */
.figure.align-left,
img.align-left,
object.align-left,
table.align-left {
margin-right: auto;
}
.figure.align-center,
img.align-center,
object.align-center {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
display: block;
}
table.align-center {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
.figure.align-right,
img.align-right,
object.align-right,
table.align-right {
margin-left: auto;
}
/* reset inner alignment in figures and tables */
div.align-left, div.align-center, div.align-right,
table.align-left, table.align-center, table.align-right
{ text-align: inherit }

/* Admonitions and System Messages */
div.admonition,
div.system-message,
div.sidebar{
margin: 40px;
border: medium outset;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
}

/* Sidebar */
div.sidebar {
width: 30%;
max-width: 26em;
float: right;
clear: right;
}

/* Text Blocks */
div.topic,
pre.literal-block,
pre.doctest-block,
pre.math,
pre.code {
margin-right: 40px;
margin-left: 40px;
}
pre.code .ln { color: gray; } /* line numbers */

/* Tables */
table { border-collapse: collapse; }
td, th {
border-style: solid;
border-color: silver;
padding: 0 1ex;
border-width: thin;
}
td > p:first-child, th > p:first-child { margin-top: 0; }
td > p, th > p { margin-bottom: 0; }

table > caption {
text-align: left;
margin-bottom: 0.25em
}

table.borderless td, table.borderless th {
border: 0;
padding: 0;
padding-right: 0.5em /* separate table cells */
}

</style>
<style type="text/css">

/* CSS31_ style sheet for the output of Docutils HTML writers. */
/* Rules for easy reading and pre-defined style variants. */
/* */
/* :Author: Günter Milde, based on html4css1.css by David Goodger */
/* :Id: $Id: plain.css 7952 2016-07-26 18:15:59Z milde $ */
/* :Copyright: © 2015 Günter Milde. */
/* :License: Released under the terms of the `2-Clause BSD license`_, */
/* in short: */
/* */
/* Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, */
/* are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright */
/* notice and this notice are preserved. */
/* */
/* This file is offered as-is, without any warranty. */
/* */
/* .. _2-Clause BSD license: http://www.spdx.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause */
/* .. _CSS3: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS3 */


/* Document Structure */
/* ****************** */

/* "page layout" */
body {
padding: 0 5%;
margin: 8px 0;
}
div.document {
line-height:1.3;
counter-reset: table;
/* counter-reset: figure; */
/* avoid long lines --> better reading */
/* OTOH: lines should not be too short because of missing hyphenation, */
max-width: 50em;
margin: auto;
}

/* Sections */

/* Transitions */

hr.docutils {
width: 80%;
margin-top: 1em;
margin-bottom: 1em;
clear: both;
}

/* Paragraphs */
/* ========== */

/* vertical space (parskip) */
p, ol, ul, dl,
div.line-block,
table{
margin-top: 0.5em;
margin-bottom: 0.5em;
}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6,
dl > dd {
margin-bottom: 0.5em;
}

/* Lists */
/* ========== */

/* Definition Lists */

dl > dd p:first-child { margin-top: 0; }
/* :last-child is not part of CSS 2.1 (introduced in CSS 3) */
/* dl > dd p:last-child { margin-bottom: 0; } */

/* lists nested in definition lists */
/* :only-child is not part of CSS 2.1 (introduced in CSS 3) */
dd > ul:only-child, dd > ol:only-child { padding-left: 1em; }

/* Description Lists */
/* styled like in most dictionaries, encyclopedias etc. */
dl.description > dt {
font-weight: bold;
clear: left;
float: left;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
padding-right: 0.5em;
}

/* Field Lists */

/* example for custom field-name width */
dl.field-list.narrow > dd {
margin-left: 5em;
}
/* run-in: start field-body on same line after long field names */
dl.field-list.run-in > dd p {
display: block;
}

/* Bibliographic Fields */

/* generally, bibliographic fields use special definition list dl.docinfo */
/* but dedication and abstract are placed into "topic" divs */
div.abstract p.topic-title {
text-align: center;
}
div.dedication {
margin: 2em 5em;
text-align: center;
font-style: italic;
}
div.dedication p.topic-title {
font-style: normal;
}

/* Citations */
dl.citation dt.label {
font-weight: bold;
}
span.fn-backref {
font-weight: normal;
}

/* Text Blocks */
/* ============ */

/* Literal Blocks */
pre.literal-block, pre.doctest-block,
pre.math, pre.code {
margin-left: 1.5em;
margin-right: 1.5em
}

/* Block Quotes */

blockquote,
div.topic {
margin-left: 1.5em;
margin-right: 1.5em
}
blockquote > table,
div.topic > table {
margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
}
blockquote p.attribution,
div.topic p.attribution {
text-align: right;
margin-left: 20%;
}

/* Tables */
/* ====== */

/* th { vertical-align: bottom; } */

table tr { text-align: left; }

/* "booktabs" style (no vertical lines) */
table.booktabs {
border: 0;
border-top: 2px solid;
border-bottom: 2px solid;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
table.booktabs * {
border: 0;
}
table.booktabs th {
border-bottom: thin solid;
}

/* numbered tables (counter defined in div.document) */
table.numbered > caption:before {
counter-increment: table;
content: "Table " counter(table) ": ";
font-weight: bold;
}

/* Explicit Markup Blocks */
/* ====================== */

/* Footnotes and Citations */
/* ----------------------- */

/* line on the left */
dl.footnote {
padding-left: 1ex;
border-left: solid;
border-left-width: thin;
}

/* Directives */
/* ---------- */

/* Body Elements */
/* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ */

/* Images and Figures */

/* let content flow to the side of aligned images and figures */
.figure.align-left,
img.align-left,
object.align-left {
display: block;
clear: left;
float: left;
margin-right: 1em
}
.figure.align-right,
img.align-right,
object.align-right {
display: block;
clear: right;
float: right;
margin-left: 1em
}
/* Stop floating sidebars, images and figures at section level 1,2,3 */
h1, h2, h3 { clear: both; }

/* Sidebar */

/* Move into the margin. In a layout with fixed margins, */
/* it can be moved into the margin completely. */
div.sidebar {
width: 30%;
max-width: 26em;
margin-left: 1em;
margin-right: -5.5%;
background-color: #ffffee ;
}

/* Code */

pre.code, code { background-color: #eeeeee }
pre.code .ln { color: gray; } /* line numbers */
/* basic highlighting: for a complete scheme, see */
/* http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/stylesheets/ */
pre.code .comment, code .comment { color: #5C6576 }
pre.code .keyword, code .keyword { color: #3B0D06; font-weight: bold }
pre.code .literal.string, code .literal.string { color: #0C5404 }
pre.code .name.builtin, code .name.builtin { color: #352B84 }
pre.code .deleted, code .deleted { background-color: #DEB0A1}
pre.code .inserted, code .inserted { background-color: #A3D289}

/* Math */
/* styled separately (see math.css for math-output=HTML) */

/* Epigraph */
/* Highlights */
/* Pull-Quote */
/* Compound Paragraph */
/* Container */

/* can be styled in a custom stylesheet */

/* Document Header and Footer */

div.footer, div.header {
clear: both;
font-size: smaller;
}

/* Inline Markup */
/* ============= */

/* Emphasis */
/* em */
/* Strong Emphasis */
/* strong */
/* Interpreted Text */
/* span.interpreted */
/* Title Reference */
/* cite */
/* Inline Literals */
/* possible values: normal, nowrap, pre, pre-wrap, pre-line */
/* span.docutils.literal { white-space: pre-wrap; } */

/* Hyperlink References */
a { text-decoration: none; }

/* External Targets */
/* span.target.external */
/* Internal Targets */
/* span.target.internal */
/* Footnote References */
/* a.footnote-reference */
/* Citation References */
/* a.citation-reference */

</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="document" id="my-heading">
<h1 class="title">My heading</h1>

<p class="subtitle" id="introduction">Introduction</p>
<p>My custome introduction</p>
<table>
<caption><strong>Default flavors</strong></caption>
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 24%" />
<col style="width: 18%" />
<col style="width: 30%" />
<col style="width: 28%" />
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr><th class="head"><p>Flavor</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>VCPUs</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Disk (in GB)</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>RAM (in MB)</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td><p>m1.tiny</p></td>
<td><p>1</p></td>
<td><p>1</p></td>
<td><p>512</p></td>
</tr>
<tr><td><p>m1.small</p></td>
<td><p>1</p></td>
<td><p>20</p></td>
<td><p>2048</p></td>
</tr>
<tr><td><p>m1.medium</p></td>
<td><p>2</p></td>
<td><p>40</p></td>
<td><p>4096</p></td>
</tr>
<tr><td><p>m1.large</p></td>
<td><p>4</p></td>
<td><p>80</p></td>
<td><p>8192</p></td>
</tr>
<tr><td><p>m1.xlarge</p></td>
<td><p>8</p></td>
<td><p>160</p></td>
<td><p>16384</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Stefan Merten
2016-08-05 18:28:56 UTC
Permalink
Hi Vinita!
Post by Deshpande, Vinita
I have created a txt file,with some content, which is formatted
using rst (for ex:, headings using "=", table etc). I would like to
see, how this would look as an html page.
In Emacs the simplest solution would be to load the file into a
buffer, switch to `rst-mode` (which might be running already when
using ``.rst`` as an extension). Then hit C-c C-c C-c executing
compiling to HTML if you have the Docutils package installed (which
you of course should when using reStructuredText). This creates a HTML
file in parallel to your source you can pick up with your favorite
browser.



HTH

Stefan
Alan G. Isaac
2016-08-05 19:01:06 UTC
Permalink
I have created a txt file,with some content, which is formatted using rst (for ex:, headings using “=”, table etc). I would like to see, how this would look as an html page. Can I
please know how to do this?
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/tools.html#html-generating-tools

hth,
Alan Isaac

Loading...