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[[template id=plugin name=rst author="Sergio Talens-Oliag"]] [[tag type/format]] [[tag type/slow]]

This plugin lets ikwiki convert files with names ending in ".rst" to html. It uses the reStructuredText markup syntax. You need to have the python-docutils module installed to use it.

Note that this plugin does not interoperate very well with the rest of ikiwiki. Limitations include:

  • reStructuredText does not allow raw html to be inserted into documents, but ikiwiki does so in many cases, including [[WikiLinks|WikiLink]] and many [[PreprocessorDirectives|PreprocessorDirective]].
  • It's slow; it forks a copy of python for each page. While there is a perl version of the reStructuredText processor, it is not being kept in sync with the standard version, so is not used.

So while you may find this useful for importing old files into your wiki, using this as your main markup language in ikiwiki isn't recommended at this time.