rst2html5 (Docutils 0.13.1 [release], Python 3.5.3, on linux)

Usage ===== rst2html5 [options] [<source> [<destination>]] Generates HTML 5 documents from standalone reStructuredText sources Reads from <source> (default is stdin) and writes to <destination> (default is stdout). See <http://docutils.sf.net/docs/user/config.html> for the full reference. Options ======= General Docutils Options ------------------------ --title=TITLE Specify the document title as metadata. --generator, -g Include a "Generated by Docutils" credit and link. --no-generator Do not include a generator credit. --date, -d Include the date at the end of the document (UTC). --time, -t Include the time & date (UTC). --no-datestamp Do not include a datestamp of any kind. --source-link, -s Include a "View document source" link. --source-url=<URL> Use <URL> for a source link; implies --source-link. --no-source-link Do not include a "View document source" link. --toc-entry-backlinks Link from section headers to TOC entries. (default) --toc-top-backlinks Link from section headers to the top of the TOC. --no-toc-backlinks Disable backlinks to the table of contents. --footnote-backlinks Link from footnotes/citations to references. (default) --no-footnote-backlinks Disable backlinks from footnotes and citations. --section-numbering Enable section numbering by Docutils. (default) --no-section-numbering Disable section numbering by Docutils. --strip-comments Remove comment elements from the document tree. --leave-comments Leave comment elements in the document tree. (default) --strip-elements-with-class=<class> Remove all elements with classes="<class>" from the document tree. Warning: potentially dangerous; use with caution. (Multiple-use option.) --strip-class=<class> Remove all classes="<class>" attributes from elements in the document tree. Warning: potentially dangerous; use with caution. (Multiple-use option.) --report=<level>, -r <level> Report system messages at or higher than <level>: "info" or "1", "warning"/"2" (default), "error"/"3", "severe"/"4", "none"/"5" --verbose, -v Report all system messages. (Same as "--report=1".) --quiet, -q Report no system messages. (Same as "--report=5".) --halt=<level> Halt execution at system messages at or above <level>. Levels as in --report. Default: 4 (severe). --strict Halt at the slightest problem. Same as "--halt=info". --exit-status=<level> Enable a non-zero exit status for non-halting system messages at or above <level>. Default: 5 (disabled). --debug Enable debug-level system messages and diagnostics. --no-debug Disable debug output. (default) --warnings=<file> Send the output of system messages to <file>. --traceback Enable Python tracebacks when Docutils is halted. --no-traceback Disable Python tracebacks. (default) --input-encoding=<name[:handler]>, -i <name[:handler]> Specify the encoding and optionally the error handler of input text. Default: <locale-dependent>:strict. --input-encoding-error-handler=INPUT_ENCODING_ERROR_HANDLER Specify the error handler for undecodable characters. Choices: "strict" (default), "ignore", and "replace". --output-encoding=<name[:handler]>, -o <name[:handler]> Specify the text encoding and optionally the error handler for output. Default: UTF-8:strict. --output-encoding-error-handler=OUTPUT_ENCODING_ERROR_HANDLER Specify error handler for unencodable output characters; "strict" (default), "ignore", "replace", "xmlcharrefreplace", "backslashreplace". --error-encoding=<name[:handler]>, -e <name[:handler]> Specify text encoding and error handler for error output. Default text encoding: system encoding. Default error handler: backslashreplace. --error-encoding-error-handler=ERROR_ENCODING_ERROR_HANDLER Specify the error handler for unencodable characters in error output. Default: backslashreplace. --language=<name>, -l <name> Specify the language (as BCP 47 language tag). Default: en. --record-dependencies=<file> Write output file dependencies to <file>. --config=<file> Read configuration settings from <file>, if it exists. --version, -V Show this program's version number and exit. --help, -h Show this help message and exit. reStructuredText Parser Options ------------------------------- --pep-references Recognize and link to standalone PEP references (like "PEP 258"). --pep-base-url=<URL> Base URL for PEP references (default "http://www.python.org/dev/peps/"). --pep-file-url-template=<URL> Template for PEP file part of URL. (default "pep-%04d") --rfc-references Recognize and link to standalone RFC references (like "RFC 822"). --rfc-base-url=<URL> Base URL for RFC references (default "http://tools.ietf.org/html/"). --tab-width=<width> Set number of spaces for tab expansion (default 8). --trim-footnote-reference-space Remove spaces before footnote references. --leave-footnote-reference-space Leave spaces before footnote references. --no-file-insertion Disable directives that insert the contents of external file ("include" & "raw"); replaced with a "warning" system message. --file-insertion-enabled Enable directives that insert the contents of external file ("include" & "raw"). Enabled by default. --no-raw Disable the "raw" directives; replaced with a "warning" system message. --raw-enabled Enable the "raw" directive. Enabled by default. --syntax-highlight=<format> Token name set for parsing code with Pygments: one of "long", "short", or "none (no parsing)". Default is "long". --smart-quotes=SMART_QUOTES Change straight quotation marks to typographic form: one of "yes", "no", "alt[ernative]" (default "no"). --word-level-inline-markup Inline markup recognized at word boundaries only (adjacent to punctuation or whitespace). Force character-level inline markup recognition with "\ " (backslash + space). Default. --character-level-inline-markup Inline markup recognized anywhere, regardless of surrounding characters. Backslash-escapes must be used to avoid unwanted markup recognition. Useful for East Asian languages. Experimental. Standalone Reader ----------------- --no-doc-title Disable the promotion of a lone top-level section title to document title (and subsequent section title to document subtitle promotion; enabled by default). --no-doc-info Disable the bibliographic field list transform (enabled by default). --section-subtitles Activate the promotion of lone subsection titles to section subtitles (disabled by default). --no-section-subtitles Deactivate the promotion of lone subsection titles. HTML-Specific Options --------------------- --template=<file> Specify the template file (UTF-8 encoded). Default is "/usr/share/docutils/writers/html5_polyglot/template.t xt". --stylesheet=<URL[,URL,...]> Comma separated list of stylesheet URLs. Overrides previous --stylesheet and --stylesheet-path settings. --stylesheet-path=<file[,file,...]> Comma separated list of stylesheet paths. Relative paths are expanded if a matching file is found in the --stylesheet-dirs. With --link-stylesheet, the path is rewritten relative to the output HTML file. Default: "minimal.css,plain.css" --embed-stylesheet Embed the stylesheet(s) in the output HTML file. The stylesheet files must be accessible during processing. This is the default. --link-stylesheet Link to the stylesheet(s) in the output HTML file. Default: embed stylesheets. --stylesheet-dirs=<dir[,dir,...]> Comma-separated list of directories where stylesheets are found. Used by --stylesheet-path when expanding relative path arguments. Default: "['.', '/usr/share/docutils/writers/html5_polyglot']" --initial-header-level=<level> Specify the initial header level. Default is 1 for "<h1>". Does not affect document title & subtitle (see --no-doc-title). --footnote-references=<format> Format for footnote references: one of "superscript" or "brackets". Default is "brackets". --attribution=<format> Format for block quote attributions: one of "dash" (em-dash prefix), "parentheses"/"parens", or "none". Default is "dash". --compact-lists Remove extra vertical whitespace between items of "simple" bullet lists and enumerated lists. Default: enabled. --no-compact-lists Disable compact simple bullet and enumerated lists. --compact-field-lists Remove extra vertical whitespace between items of simple field lists. Default: enabled. --no-compact-field-lists Disable compact simple field lists. --table-style=TABLE_STYLE Added to standard table classes. Defined styles: borderless, booktabs, align-left, align-center, align- right, colwidths-auto. Default: "" --math-output=MATH_OUTPUT Math output format (one of "MathML", "HTML", "MathJax", or "LaTeX") and option(s). Default: "HTML math.css" --xml-declaration Prepend an XML declaration. (Thwarts HTML5 conformance.) Default: False --no-xml-declaration Omit the XML declaration. --cloak-email-addresses Obfuscate email addresses to confuse harvesters while still keeping email links usable with standards- compliant browsers.