On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Xavier de Gaye wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Carsten Agger wrote:
>> ...
>> This script allows simple formatting like *italics* and _underline_, but
>> I'd like something a but more "shiny", which would e.g. also recognize
>> chapter and section headings and maybe even generate a TOC.
>>
>> Does anybody have any recommendations? There's txt2tags, which I just
>> found (http://txt2tags.sourceforge.net/writing-book.html), and I suppose
>> one could write something similar to easily convert a text file to a
>> LaTex file, but as I said - do anyone have any experience using such
>> tools?
>
>
> You may want to have a look at docutils, http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
>
> "Docutils is an open-source text processing system for processing
> plaintext documentation into useful formats, such as HTML or LaTeX. It
> includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use,
> what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language."
>
> reStructuredText handles TOC, headings, lists, tables. The markup
> is such that the original text can be easily read as a plain text.
>
> reStructuredText is used for the Python documentation.
>
> I am using docutils and reStructuredText in a moinmoin wiki and find
> it very useful.

+1 for reStructuredText. Easy to write, readable in source form, and
looks good both in html and as latex converted to pdf.

~Matt

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