Hello, my name is Jeff Rush and this is a quick demonstration of reStructuredText, a stylized way of marking up plaintext documents. reStructuredText was developed in the Python community and is used for whitepapers, embedded markup for program source and wiki pages, and to rapidly create slide presentations.

ReStructuredText documents can be mechanically converted into HTML pages, PDF documents and browser-accessible slide presentations. We'll take a look at each of these choices, all from the same document.

• use with emacs by rst.el macro package
  • colorize
  • hotkeys
    • XML C-c p x
    • HTML C-c p H
    • PDF C-c p q
    • S5 C-c p Q
• sections -> title -> docinfo
• mark section C-c p m
• (demonstrate hotkeys to HTML, PDF)
• (talk about DOM tree -> walk, transform, extract)
• toc .. contents (double-colon)
• toc C-c p i
• emphasis
• lists -> bullets, numbered
• tables -> grid, simple
• links
• graphics .. image:: apple.png
• substitutions .. |apple| .. image:: /home/caster/notes/presentations/demofiles/apple.png
• talk more about slides, demo slide navigator
• show one of my slide.txt files

If reStructuredText looks like something you'd like to investigate further, visit this URL for the "docutils" Python package.

Thanks for listening and look for future talks about reStructuredText and how it can be integrated into your Python programs. It is a generally useful tool to add to your toolkit.