[Docutils-users] escaping Text so that's docutils doesn't try to format it?

[Erik S. <st...@ma...>]

Hello --

I'm using docutils to semi-automatically construct certain content 
pages. I've got the problem that sometimes people enter text which in 
the context of a restructured text file has some semantical meaning, but 
this is not the intention in the actual case.

E.g.

"v. l. Donald Trump, Kim Jong UN"

where "v. l." means "from left to right" in a photo.

Docutils interprets this as a roman numbered list (my guess, this is in 
the context of a figure

is there a (python) function in docutils which allows to escape a string 
in a way that docutils simply renders it as text?

thanks and best regards
-- erik