Re: [Docutils-develop] rst2rst / rst writer

[Roberto A. <ra...@ne...>]

On 25/10/13 16:37, Peter Funk wrote:
> Hallo Guenter,
>
> Guenter Milde schrieb am Freitag, den 25.10.2013 um 13:14:
>> On 2013-10-25, Christian Weiske wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>
>>> Is there docutils in-built support for generating rst from a rst file?
>>> If not, is that planned?
>> It is on the radar for a long time, but we are nowhere near to a "native"
>> rst writer.
> ...
>
> Would you or David care to explain, why it seems to
> be so damn hard to implement something like this?
>
> For example: In the sandbox there is a rst2wiki written 
> by Joshua Graff.  I admit that I've never used it and
> didn't look into his code.  But this writer is something 
> like 1150 lines of Python code.  The manpage-writer in
> docutils has a similar size.  So does rst2beamer.
>
> Compare this to your latex2e/__init__.py which
> was ---of course--- a lot of more work.
>
> What do you think?  
>
> How much harder/easier would it be to implement
> a writer which outputs rst looking similar to the
> original parsed rst input document?

You could take a look at
https://code.google.com/p/tobogan/source/browse/trunk/rst2rst.py