RST-BUILDHTML(1) text processing RST-BUILDHTML(1)
NAME
rst-buildhtml - convert many reST documents to HTML
SYNOPSIS
rst-buildhtml [options] [<directory> ...]
DESCRIPTION
Generates .html from all the reStructuredText .txt files (including
PEPs) in each <directory> (default is the current directory).
OPTIONS
General Docutils Options
--title=TITLE
Specify the document title as metadata.
--generator, -g
Include a "Generated by Docutils" credit and link.
--no-generator
Do not include a generator credit.
--date, -d
Include the date at the end of the document (UTC).
--time, -t
Include the time & date (UTC).
--no-datestamp
Do not include a datestamp of any kind.
--source-link, -s
Include a "View document source" link.
--source-url=<URL>
Use <URL> for a source link; implies --source-link.
--no-source-link
Do not include a "View document source" link.
--toc-entry-backlinks
Link from section headers to TOC entries. (default)
--toc-top-backlinks
Link from section headers to the top of the TOC.
--no-toc-backlinks
Disable backlinks to the table of contents.
--footnote-backlinks
Link from footnotes/citations to references. (default)
--no-footnote-backlinks
Disable backlinks from footnotes and citations.
--section-numbering
Enable section numbering by Docutils. (default)
--no-section-numbering
Disable section numbering by Docutils.
--strip-comments
Remove comment elements from the document tree.
--leave-comments
Leave comment elements in the document tree. (default)
--strip-elements-with-class=<class>
Remove all elements with classes="<class>" from the document
tree. Warning: potentially dangerous; use with caution. (Multi-
ple-use option.)
--strip-class=<class>
Remove all classes="<class>" attributes from elements in the
document tree. Warning: potentially dangerous; use with caution.
(Multiple-use option.)
--report=<level>, -r <level>
Report system messages at or higher than <level>: "info" or "1",
"warning"/"2" (default), "error"/"3", "severe"/"4", "none"/"5"
--verbose, -v
Report all system messages. (Same as "--report=1".)
--quiet, -q
Report no system messages. (Same as "--report=5".)
--halt=<level>
Halt execution at system messages at or above <level>. Levels
as in --report. Default: 4 (severe).
--strict
Halt at the slightest problem. Same as "--halt=info".
--exit-status=<level>
Enable a non-zero exit status for non-halting system messages at
or above <level>. Default: 5 (disabled).
--debug
Enable debug-level system messages and diagnostics.
--no-debug
Disable debug output. (default)
--warnings=<file>
Send the output of system messages to <file>.
--traceback
Enable Python tracebacks when Docutils is halted.
--no-traceback
Disable Python tracebacks. (default)
--input-encoding=<name[:handler]>, -i <name[:handler]>
Specify the encoding and optionally the error handler of input
text. Default: <locale-dependent>:strict.
--input-encoding-error-handler=INPUT_ENCODING_ERROR_HANDLER
Specify the error handler for undecodable characters. Choices:
"strict" (default), "ignore", and "replace".
--output-encoding=<name[:handler]>, -o <name[:handler]>
Specify the text encoding and optionally the error handler for
output. Default: UTF-8:strict.
--output-encoding-error-handler=OUTPUT_ENCODING_ERROR_HANDLER
Specify error handler for unencodable output characters;
"strict" (default), "ignore", "replace", "xmlcharrefreplace",
"backslashreplace".
--error-encoding=<name[:handler]>, -e <name[:handler]>
Specify text encoding and error handler for error output. De-
fault text encoding: system encoding. Default error handler:
backslashreplace.
--error-encoding-error-handler=ERROR_ENCODING_ERROR_HANDLER
Specify the error handler for unencodable characters in error
output. Default: backslashreplace.
--language=<name>, -l <name>
Specify the language (as BCP 47 language tag). Default: en.
--record-dependencies=<file>
Write output file dependencies to <file>.
--config=<file>
Read configuration settings from <file>, if it exists.
--version, -V
Show this program's version number and exit.
--help, -h
Show this help message and exit.
PEP Reader Option Defaults
The --pep-references and --rfc-references options (for the reStruc-
turedText parser) are on by default.
Generic Parser Options
--no-file-insertion
Disable directives that insert the contents of an external file;
replaced with a "warning" system message.
--file-insertion-enabled
Enable directives that insert the contents of an external file.
(default)
--no-raw
Disable the "raw" directive; replaced with a "warning" system
message.
--raw-enabled
Enable the "raw" directive. (default)
--line-length-limit=<length>
Maximal number of characters in an input line. Default 10 000.
reStructuredText Parser Options
--pep-references
Recognize and link to standalone PEP references (like "PEP
258").
--pep-base-url=<URL>
Base URL for PEP references (default "-
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/").
--pep-file-url-template=<URL>
Template for PEP file part of URL. (default "pep-%04d")
--rfc-references
Recognize and link to standalone RFC references (like "RFC
822").
--rfc-base-url=<URL>
Base URL for RFC references (default "-
http://tools.ietf.org/html/").
--tab-width=<width>
Set number of spaces for tab expansion (default 8).
--trim-footnote-reference-space
Remove spaces before footnote references.
--leave-footnote-reference-space
Leave spaces before footnote references.
--syntax-highlight=<format>
Token name set for parsing code with Pygments: one of "long",
"short", or "none" (no parsing). Default is "long".
--smart-quotes=<yes/no/alt>
Change straight quotation marks to typographic form: one of
"yes", "no", "alt[ernative]" (default "no").
--smartquotes-locales=<language:quotes[,language:quotes,...]>
Characters to use as "smart quotes" for <language>.
--word-level-inline-markup
Inline markup recognized at word boundaries only (adjacent to
punctuation or whitespace). Force character-level inline markup
recognition with "" (backslash + space). Default.
--character-level-inline-markup
Inline markup recognized anywhere, regardless of surrounding
characters. Backslash-escapes must be used to avoid unwanted
markup recognition. Useful for East Asian languages. Experimen-
tal.
HTML-Specific Options
--template=<file>
Specify the template file (UTF-8 encoded). Default is
"/usr/share/docutils/writers/html4css1/template.txt".
--stylesheet=<URL[,URL,...]>
Comma separated list of stylesheet URLs. Overrides previous
--stylesheet and --stylesheet-path settings.
--stylesheet-path=<file[,file,...]>
Comma separated list of stylesheet paths. Relative paths are ex-
panded if a matching file is found in the --stylesheet-dirs.
With --link-stylesheet, the path is rewritten relative to the
output HTML file. Default: "html4css1.css"
--embed-stylesheet
Embed the stylesheet(s) in the output HTML file. The stylesheet
files must be accessible during processing. This is the de-
fault.
--link-stylesheet
Link to the stylesheet(s) in the output HTML file. Default: em-
bed stylesheets.
--stylesheet-dirs=<dir[,dir,...]>
Comma-separated list of directories where stylesheets are found.
Used by --stylesheet-path when expanding relative path argu-
ments. Default: "['.', '/usr/share/docutils/writers/html4css1',
'/usr/share/docutils/writers/html5_polyglot']"
--initial-header-level=<level>
Specify the initial header level. Default is 1 for "<h1>".
Does not affect document title & subtitle (see --no-doc-title).
--field-name-limit=<level>
Specify the maximum width (in characters) for one- column field
names. Longer field names will span an entire row of the table
used to render the field list. Default is 14 characters. Use 0
for "no limit".
--option-limit=<level>
Specify the maximum width (in characters) for options in option
lists. Longer options will span an entire row of the table used
to render the option list. Default is 14 characters. Use 0 for
"no limit".
--footnote-references=<format>
Format for footnote references: one of "superscript" or "brack-
ets". Default is "brackets".
--attribution=<format>
Format for block quote attributions: one of "dash" (em-dash pre-
fix), "parentheses"/"parens", or "none". Default is "dash".
--compact-lists
Remove extra vertical whitespace between items of "simple" bul-
let lists and enumerated lists. Default: enabled.
--no-compact-lists
Disable compact simple bullet and enumerated lists.
--compact-field-lists
Remove extra vertical whitespace between items of simple field
lists. Default: enabled.
--no-compact-field-lists
Disable compact simple field lists.
--embed-images
Embed images in the output HTML file, if the image files are ac-
cessible during processing.
--link-images
Link to images in the output HTML file. This is the default.
--table-style=TABLE_STYLE
Added to standard table classes. Defined styles: "borderless".
Default: ""
--math-output=MATH_OUTPUT
Math output format, one of "MathML", "HTML", "MathJax" or "La-
TeX". Default: "HTML math.css"
--no-xml-declaration
Omit the XML declaration. Use with caution.
--cloak-email-addresses
Obfuscate email addresses to confuse harvesters while still
keeping email links usable with standards- compliant browsers.
PEP/HTML-Specific Options
For the PEP/HTML writer, the default value for the --stylesheet-path
option is "/usr/share/docutils/writers/pep_html/pep.css", and the de-
fault value for --template is "/usr/share/docutils/writ-
ers/pep_html/template.txt". See HTML- Specific Options above.
--python-home=<URL>
Python's home URL. Default is "http://www.python.org".
--pep-home=<URL>
Home URL prefix for PEPs. Default is "." (current directory).
Build-HTML Options
--recurse
Recursively scan subdirectories for files to process. This is
the default.
--local
Do not scan subdirectories for files to process.
--prune=<directory>
Do not process files in <directory> (shell globbing patterns,
separated by colons). This option may be used more than once to
specify multiple directories. Default:
".hg:.bzr:.git:.svn:CVS".
--ignore=<patterns>
Recursively ignore files matching any of the given wildcard
(shell globbing) patterns (separated by colons).
--writer=<writer>
Docutils writer, one of "html", "html4", "html5". Default:
"html" (use Docutils' default HTML writer).
--html-writer=<writer>
Obsoleted by "--writer".
--silent
Work silently (no progress messages). Independent of "--quiet".
--dry-run
Do not process files, show files that would be processed.
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