X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/8f8959c96ecc69ecc75b5e5c76b52345afce94d8..d88af43011193bb0eef79b749ae9a93eda5d266e:/doc/plugins/rst.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/rst.mdwn b/doc/plugins/rst.mdwn index 48c896857..5e97e2d80 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/rst.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/rst.mdwn @@ -1,21 +1,17 @@ -[[template id=plugin name=rst included=1 author="Sergio Talens-Oliag"]] -[[tag type/format]] +[[!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: -* reStructuredText does not allow raw html to be inserted into - documents, but ikiwiki does so in many cases, including - [[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. +* There are issues with inserting raw html into documents, as ikiwiki + 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