ReStructuredText viewer
Project description
A viewer for ReStructuredText documents that renders them on the fly.
Pass the name of a ReStructuredText document to restview, and it will launch a web server on localhost:random-port and open a web browser. Every time you reload the page, restview will reload the document from disk and render it. This is very convenient for previewing a document while you’re editing it.
You can also pass the name of a directory, and restview will recursively look for files that end in .txt or .rst and present you with a list.
Finally, you can make sure your Python package has valid ReStructuredText in the long_description field by using
restview -e 'python setup.py --long-description'
Changelog
1.2 (2010-08-06)
“SEVERE” docutils errors now display a message and unformatted file in the browser, instead of a traceback on the console.
New command-line option, -e COMMAND.
Added styles for admonitions; many other important styles are still missing.
1.1.3 (2009-10-25)
Spell ‘extras_require’ correctly in setup.py (LP#459840).
Add a MANIFEST.in for complete source distributions (LP#459845).
1.1.2 (2009-10-14)
Fix for ‘localhost’ name resolution error on Mac OS X.
1.1.1 (2009-07-13)
Launches the web server in the background.
1.1.0 (2008-08-26)
Accepts any number of files and directories on the command line.
1.0.1 (2008-07-26)
New option: –css. Accepts a filename or a HTTP/HTTPS URL.
1.0.0 (2008-07-26)
Bumped version number to reflect the stability.
Minor CSS tweaks.
0.0.5 (2007-09-29)
Create links to other local files referenced by name.
Use pygments (if available) to syntax-highlight doctest blocks.
Handle JPEG images.
0.0.4 (2007-09-28)
Remove the unstable Gtk+ version.
0.0.3 (2007-09-28)
Use setuptools for packaging.
0.0.2 (2007-01-21)
Browser-based version.
Command line options -l, -b (thanks to Charlie Shepherd).
CSS tweaks.
Unicode bugfix.
Can browse directory trees.
Can serve images.
0.0.1 (2005-12-06)
PyGtk+ version with GtkMozEmbed. Not very stable.
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