Re: [Docutils-users] A more flexible RST -> HTML writer?

[Nick M. <ni...@zo...>]

begin  Tom Bryan  quotation:
> The question: Is there any easy way to subclass rst2html.py just to
> tweak little pieces like how to handle the start and end of the
> page?  Or is there another, more extensible HTML writer that permits
> such things?  Just glancing at rst2html.py, it looked like it would
> take me a good chunk of the day just to figure out whether I could
> extend it to make it do what I want.  

I'm curious about this myself.  I've wondered if it were possible to
specify standard "header" and "footer" data on a per-translation
basis.  For instance, when building PDFs of my documents I need to
whack LaTeX over the head to convince it to do Unicode properly.  

For an example, check out the hideous sed command in:

    http://zork.net/~nick/loyhargil/fate-srd-rest/Makefile 

Likewise I'd love to be able to build a whole site from reST sources,
all the while keeping my sidebars and such.  It seems that the folks
who do this now use frames, and that way has always lain madness.

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