X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/6887ef169e525e303c7d6f3f6d23cdc939b17f54..0a15052262b22eb6349a653a2999ec79430a041b:/doc/plugins/rst.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/rst.mdwn b/doc/plugins/rst.mdwn index 7250e46a1..5e97e2d80 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/rst.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/rst.mdwn @@ -1,21 +1,17 @@ -[[template id=plugin name=rst author="Sergio Talens-Oliag"]] -[[tag type/format]] -[[tag type/slow]] +[[!template id=plugin name=rst author="martin f. krafft"]] +[[!tag type/format]] This plugin lets ikwiki convert files with names ending in ".rst" to html. It uses the [reStructuredText](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html) -markup syntax. You need to have the python-docutils module installed to use -it. +markup syntax. You need to have [[!cpan RPC::XML]], python and the +python-docutils module installed to use it. Note that this plugin does not interoperate very well with the rest of ikiwiki. Limitations include: * There are issues with inserting raw html into documents, as ikiwiki - does with [[WikiLinks|WikiLink]] and many - [[PreprocessorDirectives|PreprocessorDirective]]. -* It's slow; it forks a copy of python for each page. While there is a - perl version of the reStructuredText processor, it is not being kept in - sync with the standard version, so is not used. + does with [[WikiLinks|ikiwiki/WikiLink]] and many + [[directives|ikiwiki/directive]]. So while you may find this useful for importing old files into your wiki, using this as your main markup language in ikiwiki isn't recommended at