ReStructuredText - Definition

The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is reStructuredText.

reStructuredText is a markup language intended to be highly readable in source format, as well as a parser system for this markup. The latter is implemented in the Python programming language.

The parser system for reStructuredText is a component of the Docutils project.

reStructuredText is sometimes abbreviated as RST or reST.

Examples of markup

Headers:

Section Header
==============

Subsection Header
-----------------

Lists:

- A bullet list item

- Second item

  - A sub item

- Third item

1) An enumerated list item

2) Second item

   a) Sub item

      i) Sub-sub item

3) Third item

Named links:

A sentence with links to Google_ and the `Linux kernel archive`_.

.. _Google: http://www.google.com/
.. _Linux kernel archive: http://www.kernel.org/

Anonymous links:

Another sentence with an `anonymous link to the Python website`__.

__ http://www.python.org/

External links

• reStructuredText (http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html)