ReText is a simple but powerful editor for Markdown and reStructuredText markup languages. One can also add support for custom markups using Python modules.
To install ReText, make sure that you have Python (3.6 or later) installed,
and run pip3 install ReText
. By default it installs system wide, pass
--user
for installing into the user’s home directory. You can also manually
download the tarball from PyPI.
ReText requires the following Python modules to run (pip
will install them
automatically):
We also recommend having these packages installed:
- Markdown — for Markdown support
- docutils — for reStructuredText support
- pyenchant — for spell checking support
Translation files are already compiled for release tarballs and will be
automatically loaded. For development snapshots, compile translations using
lrelease locale/*.ts
command (on Debian-based systems, lrelease
is
available in qttools5-dev-tools
package). Translation files can also be
loaded from /usr/share/retext/
directory.
You can translate ReText into your language on Transifex.
ReText is Copyright 2011–2020 Dmitry Shachnev,
2011–2016 Maurice van der Pot, and is
licensed under GNU GPL (v2+) license, the current version is available in
LICENSE_GPL
file.
ReText icon is based on accessories-text-editor
icon from the Faenza theme.
You can read more about ReText in the wiki.