rst2textile is docutils textile writer convert reStructuredText(rst) to Textile format.

Features

• Docutils writer for textile.
  • supported syntaxes are:
    • headings: h1/h2..
    • docinfo: field-list (like :Date: today) at top of rst file.
    • paragraph
    • emphasis: *em*
    • strong: **strong**
    • list-item: * egg
    • enum-item: #. ham
    • blockquote
    • link: `foo <http://example.com/>`_
    • image: .. image:: http://example.com/image.png
    • literal: ``some code`` and ::
    • some table syntax
• Sphinx textile builder (experimental).
  1. write conf.py extensions = ['docutils_textile']
  2. build by sphinx-build -b textile source _build/textile

Install

$ pip install rst2textile

If you wanto to use unrelease version, you can install from repository:

$ pip install -e hg+https://bitbucket.org/shimizukawa/rst2textile#egg=rst2textile

Run

$ rst2textile.py input.rst output.txt

or:

$ python -m rst2textile input.rst output.txt

Test

$ python setup.py test

or:

$ python test.py

Depends

• Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4
• Docutils 0.12, 0.11, 0.10

Limitation

• Not supported: some textile syntax at http://redcloth.org/textile

ToDo

• Documentation
• Implement some textile format.

CHANGES

0.2.1 (2014/10/04)

• Fix: number of table columns reduced to shorter row.

0.2.0 (2014/10/04)

• add support textile table output. Thanks to tell-k.
• remove pysetup related lines.
• change supported python versions: 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4
• change supported docutils versions: 0.12, 0.11, 0.10

0.1.1 (2012/4/29)

• add supported python versions: 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

0.1.0 (2012/4/22)

• first release
• supported syntax: h1/h2.., docinfo, paragraph, em, strong, list-item, enum-item, blockquote, link, image, literal

Convert Samples

Heading1

rst:

==========
Heading1
==========

textile:

h1. Heading1

Headings

rst:

==========
Heading1
==========

Heading2
==========

Heading3
----------

Heading4
^^^^^^^^^^

textile:

h1. Heading1


h2. Heading2


h3. Heading3


h4. Heading4

Document Information

rst:

HelloWorld
===========

:Date: Today
:Author: SpamEgg
:Location: Here

textile:

h1. HelloWorld

Date:
   Today

Author:
   SpamEgg

Location:
   Here

Paragraph

rst:

Normal Text

textile:

Normal Text

Emphasized

rst:

*emphasized* (e.g., italics)

textile:

_emphasized_ (e.g., italics)

Strongly emphasized

rst:

**strongly emphasized** (e.g., boldface)

textile:

*strongly emphasized* (e.g., boldface)

List items

rst:

- An item in a bulleted (unordered) list

- Another item in a bulleted list

  - Second Level

  * Second Level Items

    * Third level

textile:

* An item in a bulleted (unordered) list
* Another item in a bulleted list
** Second Level
** Second Level Items
*** Third level

Enumerated list items

rst:

#. An item in an enumerated (ordered) list xxxxxxx
#. Another item in an enumerated list yyyyyy

   #. Another level in an enumerated list vvvvvvvv
   #. Another level in an enumerated list vvvvvvvv

#. 3rd element at indent level1

textile:

# An item in an enumerated (ordered) list xxxxxxx
# Another item in an enumerated list yyyyyy
## Another level in an enumerated list vvvvvvvv
## Another level in an enumerated list vvvvvvvv
# 3rd element at indent level1

Blockquotes

rst:

Blockquotes

   This text will be enclosed in an HTML blockquote element.

   Second Paragraph.

textile:

Blockquotes

bq. This text will be enclosed in an HTML blockquote element.
bq. Second Paragraph.

Links

rst:

`link text and link target url <http://www.example.com/link/target/address>`_

textile:

"link text and link target url":http://www.example.com/link/target/address

Images

rst:

.. image:: http://example.com/image.jpg

.. figure:: local/image/path.png

textile:

!http://example.com/image.jpg!

!local/image/path.png!

Inner Reference

rst:

HelloWorld
===========

reference to HelloWorld_ !

textile:

h1. HelloWorld

reference to "HelloWorld" !

Literal (code)

rst:

::

   class Foo(object):

       def __init__(self, value):
           print "value = %d" % value
           raise NotImplementedError(u'EmptyClass')

textile:

<pre>
class Foo(object):

    def __init__(self, value):
        print "value = %d" % value
        raise NotImplementedError(u'EmptyClass')
</pre>

Tables

rst:

+------------------------+------------+----------+----------+
| Header row, column 1   | Header 2   | Header 3 | Header 4 |
| (header rows optional) |            |          |          |
+========================+============+==========+==========+
| body row 1, column 1   | column 2   | column 3 | column 4 |
+------------------------+------------+----------+----------+
| body row 2             | ...        | ...      |          |
+------------------------+------------+----------+----------+

textile:

|_.  Header row, column 1
(header rows optional)|_.  Header 2     |_.  Header 3   |_.  Header 4   |
| body row 1, column 1     | column 2     | column 3   | column 4   |
| body row 2               | ...          | ...        |            |

rst:

=====  =====  =======
A      B      A and B
=====  =====  =======
False  False  False
True   False  False
False  True   False
True   True   True
=====  =====  =======

textile:

|_.  A     |_.  B     |_.  A and B |
| False | False | False   |
| True  | False | False   |
| False | True  | False   |
| True  | True  | True    |

CSV Table

rst:

.. csv-table::
   :header: "Treat", "Quantity", "Description"
   :widths: 15, 10, 30

   "Albatross", 2.99, "On a stick!"
   "Crunchy Frog", 1.49, "If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be
   crunchy, now would it?"
   "Gannet Ripple", 1.99, "On a stick!"

textile:

|_.  Treat           |_.  Quantity   |_.  Description                    |
| Albatross       | 2.99       | On a stick!                    |
| Crunchy Frog    | 1.49       | If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be
crunchy, now would it?|
| Gannet Ripple   | 1.99       | On a stick!                    |

List Table

rst:

.. list-table::
   :widths: 15 10 30
   :header-rows: 1

   * - Treat
     - Quantity
     - Description
   * - Albatross
     - 2.99
     - On a stick!
   * - Crunchy Frog
     - 1.49
     - If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be
       crunchy, now would it?
   * - Gannet Ripple
     - 1.99
     - On a stick!

textile:

|_.  Treat           |_.  Quantity   |_.  Description                    |
| Albatross       | 2.99       | On a stick!                    |
| Crunchy Frog    | 1.49       | If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be
crunchy, now would it?|
| Gannet Ripple   | 1.99       | On a stick!                    |