X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/f0be976690850f0718a8829fa01fa962fd9a240e..35668b87d3247a7de6c4dbb9edd7e0d909603524:/doc/plugins/rst.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/rst.mdwn b/doc/plugins/rst.mdwn index 7d542646c..49dd81e70 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/rst.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/rst.mdwn @@ -1,15 +1,17 @@ -[[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|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