Re: [Docutils-users] Trying to create a custom role

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David Goodger wrote:
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  <pre wrap="">On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:44, Rob Mason <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rob...@am...">&lt;rob...@am...&gt;</a> wrote:
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    <pre wrap="">I am trying to create a custom role in a reST document to do text
strike-through  (HTML &lt;del&gt;&lt;/del&gt;).
I havetried workign through the docs but haven't fully gotten my head
around things. I thought it should be something like the following:
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    <pre wrap="">.. role:: del
  :prefix:
    :html: &lt;del&gt;
  :suffix:
    :html: &lt;/del&gt;

An example of using :del: `deleted deleted`
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    <pre wrap="">However when I try to compile it to html I get an error:
(ERROR/3) Error in "role" directive:
unknown option: "prefix".
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Oops just realised I was looking at a prest doc a rest example (long
day).<br>
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  <pre wrap="">Why would you think there are "prefix" &amp; "suffix" options for the
"role" directive? Docs here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#role">http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#role</a>

To get HTML &lt;del&gt; tags in your output would require a lot of work. If
all you want is the effect though, it's easy. In your document, simply
use this:

"""
.. role:: del

An example of using :del:`deleted deleted`
"""

(Note that there's no space between ":del:" and the opening "`".)

And in your stylesheet, add this:

"""
.del {text-decoration: line-through;}
"""

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This will do exactly what I want. Thanks for your help. 
 
 
 
 
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