Re: [Docutils-users] rst2html for partial HTML generation [Was: Re: 2015: reStructuredText implementations in other programming languages?]

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

On 26/06/15 09:25, Matěj Cepl wrote:
> On 2015-04-23, 08:01 GMT, Peter Funk wrote:
>> BTW: Who can contribute reports about her/his experiences
>> with pandoc ( https://github.com/jgm/pandoc ) to this discussion?
>> I've experimented in a project with the following makefile rule but
>> later decided to manually edit the resulting .rst files a lot.
> https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/2231#issuecomment-111875559
>
> rST processor which cannot process .. image: elements is kind of
> difficult to use. And now, I cannot upgrade pandoc (more recent
> one doesn't build on my system, and I don't want to use
> unpackaged programs anyway).
>
> However, I have decided to make The Right Thing™ and wrote my
> hexo renderer using rst2html
> (https://gitlab.com/mcepl/hexo-renderer-restructuredtext) except
> now I have a different problem (issue #1 in that repository).
> rst2html generates only complete HTML documents and relies on
> tons of CSS stylesheets.
>
> Would it be possible to somehow persuade rst2html to produce
> just as plain HTML as possible without dependency on too much of
> CSS?

In Nikola I just extract the body element using lxml and put it in the 
template where I want it.

The CSS ...

we have a rst.css which is extracted from docutils and a code.css 
generated by pygments.

The rst.css ... it's very old fashioned, with the 3-d sidebars and such, 
so we have an outstanding improvement request to redo via LESS so it can 
be easier to tweak, but haven't got around to hacking on it yet.