X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/a61d531edbe89f7677e8a2b2f1b82b189782dcdf..37dd9b0dc38c62f3dc7d2e87c9c2b8178c6aba60:/doc/plugins/rst.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/rst.mdwn b/doc/plugins/rst.mdwn index 969d71cdb..49dd81e70 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/rst.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/rst.mdwn @@ -1,22 +1,17 @@ -[[template id=plugin name=rst included=1 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 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 + [[PreprocessorDirectives|ikiwiki/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