Re: [Rest2web-develop] Mixing other files in with the HTML generated by rest2web

[Michael F. <ar...@vo...>]

Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> I'm considering using rest2web for maintaining my personal web of
> documents and other stuff that I keep on my home linux box.
>
> I have been writing some notes in reST already and have been using
> rst2html.py to convert them to HTML.  Since rest2web can automate this
> process and add menus etc. it seems like it may help me.
>
> However I'm not quite sure how to manage other information and
> documents like PDF files, I really want to keep this in the same
> directory hierarchy as the information.  E.g. I have a workshop manual
> for my motorbike in PDF format and would like to keep this in the
> motorbike directory along with a couple of HTML files created by
> res2web.
>
> I don't see any clean/easy way to do this, it might be possible by
> adding lines to the individual restindex sections if the index.txt
> files but this seems a bit clumsy.  What I really want is for rest2web
> only to build the files it needs to and to leave the existing
> directory hierarchy of the output in place.  Or am I confused and it
> does that already?
>
> E.g. if I have a directory somewhere down the output hierarchy called
> motorbikes and it has a file zzr1200.pdf in it will rest2web delete
> that file when I run r2w.py or will it only delete/overwrite the HTML
> files it creates from .txt files?
>
>   
rest2web *never* deletes files from the output directory (except when it 
has to overwrite them with a newer version).

Additionally you can use the 'file' keyword in the restindex to copy 
files from the source directory into the output directory.

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles.shtml