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
via pip:
pip install rst2html5-tools
locally:
git clone https://github.com/marianoguerra/rst2html5.git cd rst2html5 git submodule init git submodule update sudo python setup.py install
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.
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.
enable it:
--pretty-print-code
add language specific lexers:
--pretty-print-code-opts langs=clj:erlang
Note: you have to pass both options when passing opts to prettify like this:
--pretty-print-code --pretty-print-code-opts langs=clj:erlang
that is, the name of the languages separated by colons, available lexers at the moment of this writing are:
- apollo
- basic
- clj
- css
- dart
- erlang
- go
- hs
- lisp
- llvm
- lua
- matlab
- ml
- mumps
- n
- pascal
- proto
- rd
- r
- scala
- sql
- tcl
- tex
- vb
- vhdl
- wiki
- xq
- yaml
you can see the available lexers under html5css3/thirdparty/prettify/lang-*.js
to print pass --reveal-js-opts printpdf=true, for example:
rst2html5 --jquery --reveal-js --reveal-js-opts printpdf=true examples/slides.rst > reveal-print.html
this can be used to open with chrome or chromium and print as pdf as described here: https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js#pdf-export
Use the math
role and directive to include inline math and block-level equations into your document:
When :math`a \ne 0`, there are two solutions to :math:`ax^2 + bx + c = 0` and they are .. math:: x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}
Both of these support a basic subset of LaTeX syntax.
By default, MathJax is used for displaying math. You can choose a different output format using the --math-output
command line option:
--math-output mathjax
uses MathJax (the default)--math-output html
will use plain HTML + CSS--math-output mathml
will use MathML--math-output latex
outputs raw LaTeX
If you use MathJax, you can use the --mathjax-url
and -mathjax-config
command line options to configure a custom MathJax JavaScript URL and to provide a file with a custom MathJax configuration, respectively.
If you use HTML + CSS output, you can use the --math-css
command line option to configure a custom math stylesheet.
Note that the old MathJax postprocessor (activated using --mathjax
) has been deprecated.
you can see the examples from the above commands here:
- http://marianoguerra.github.io/rst2html5/output/clean.html
- http://marianoguerra.github.io/rst2html5/output/reveal.html
- http://marianoguerra.github.io/rst2html5/output/deck.html
- http://marianoguerra.github.io/rst2html5/output/impress.html
- http://marianoguerra.github.io/rst2html5/output/bootstrap.html
example of video directive
We use tox to run our test suite. After installing tox you can execute the tests by running tox
in the project's root directory.
The test cases can be found in html5css3/tests.py
.
clone and send us a pull request!
git clone https://github.com/marianoguerra/rst2html5.git cd rst2html5 git submodule update --init python setup.py develop
- update version on setup.py
python setup.py sdist upload