-[[template id=plugin name=rst author="Sergio Talens-Oliag"]]
+[[template id=plugin name=rst author="martin f. krafft"]]
[[tag type/format]]
-[[tag type/slow]]
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 is rather 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.
+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]].
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