Re: [Docutils-users] generating plain text output

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

On Thursday 28 August 2008 13:05:40 Doug Hellmann wrote:
> I'm trying to do determine if there is an easy way to convert an rst
> file to a text file with reasonable formatting (indentation, wrapping,
> etc.) and without the rst markup (no index markers or other
> directives, etc.).  We are starting to use rst for documentation at
> work, and if we can convert to plain text easily we won't need to
> duplicate the help text for our command line applications.  We don't
> want to just show the rst source, because of the extra markup.
>
> I've looked (via google and sourceforge.net's search) for topics like
> "convert rst to plain text", but unfortunately most of the hits are
> about how rst *is* plain text and there are an overwhelming number of
> those.
>
> I don't see a writer in the standard distribution that looks like it
> would strip the markup (I thought the null writer might, but it
> doesn't look seem to).
>
> Am I missing something obvious?  Is this a problem that has been
> solved already?  Can anyone help with pointers, either in the form of
> code or other ways to search for what I need?

Use rst2html and then links -dump? Looks pretty good to me here, and seems to 
be easy to automate.

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