reStructuredText Support in Trac

Since 0.6, Trac supports using reStructuredText (RST) as an alternative to wiki markup in any context where Wiki Formatting is used.

From the reStucturedText webpage:

"reStructuredText is an easy-to-read, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup syntax and parser system. It is useful for in-line program documentation (such as Python docstrings), for quickly creating simple web pages, and for standalone documents. reStructuredText is designed for extensibility for specific application domains. "

Requirements

Note that to activate RST support in Trac, the python docutils package must be installed. If not already available on your operating system, you can download it at the ​RST Website.

More information on RST

• reStructuredText Website -- ​http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
• RST Quick Reference -- ​http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/rst/quickref.html

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Using RST in Trac

To specify that a block of text should be parsed using RST, use the rst processor.

Trac Links in reStructuredText

Trac provides a custom RST reference-directive 'trac' to allow Trac Links from within RST text.

Example:

{{{
#!rst
This is a reference to |a ticket|

.. |a ticket| trac:: #42
}}}

For a complete example of all uses of the trac-directive, please see Wiki Restructured Text Links.

Example

The example below should be mostly self-explanatory:

{{{
#!rst
FooBar Header
=============
reStructuredText is **nice**. It has its own webpage_.

A table:

=====  =====  ======
   Inputs     Output
------------  ------
  A      B    A or B
=====  =====  ======
False  False  False
True   False  True
False  True   True
True   True   True
=====  =====  ======

RST TracLinks
-------------

See also ticket |#42|.

.. |#42| trac:: #42

.. _webpage: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
}}}

Results in:

FooBar Header
=============
reStructuredText is **nice**. It has its own webpage_.

A table:

=====  =====  ======
   Inputs     Output
------------  ------
  A      B    A or B
=====  =====  ======
False  False  False
True   False  True
False  True   True
True   True   True
=====  =====  ======

RST TracLinks
-------------

See also ticket |#42|.

.. |#42| trac:: #42

.. _webpage: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

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See also: Wiki Restructured Text Links, Wiki Processors, Wiki Formatting