Re: [Docutils-users] Pre-defining substitutions.

[Peter M. <pe...@mo...>]

Could you use a templating system like Cheetah or Django templates?  Turn
your ReST to HTML with the "variables" still there and then put the result
through the templating system. That gives you a lot of flexibility.

-- Peter



David Goodger wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 16:18, Yuri D'Elia <wa...@us...> wrote:
>   
>> Hi everyone. I'm using the publish_parts API to generate some HTML files from
>> ReST sources. I want to introduce some 'variables' into the document, and
>> "substitution references" seemed the perfect match.
>>
>> How can I define a substitution reference programmatically so that I can use its
>> value though-out the document by using the |ref| syntax?
>>     
>
> The easiest way would be to tack on the text of the substitution
> definitions to the input reST sources. Either do it manually with an
> "include" directive, or programmatically by concatenating text.
>
> I'm sure it could also be done directly, but there's no simple API for
> it that would take care of all the bookkeeping.
>
>