Re: rst2pdf (was [PATCH 00/10] Documentation/Sphinx)

[Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>]

On Tue, 07 Jun 2016, Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> wrote:
> I looked closer to rst2pdf, it supports only the docutils reST, but
> not the sphinx superset ...  
>
> <SNIP rst2pdf>-------------
> $ rst2pdf  index.rst
> index.rst:15: (ERROR/3) Unknown interpreted text role "ref".
> index.rst:15: (ERROR/3) Unknown interpreted text role "ref".
> index.rst:27: (ERROR/3) Unknown directive type "toctree".

This doesn't actually happen if you run rst2pdf through Sphinx.

> .. toctree::
>     :maxdepth: 1
>
>     kernel-doc-intro
>     kernel-doc-syntax
> <SNAP>-------------
>
>
> rules like ":ref:", domains like ":c:type:" and directives like ".. toctree:"
> are a part of the (extended) reST syntax from sphinx, thats why 
> standard docutils (like rst2*) will not work ...

You will get warnings like

[WARNING] styles.py:548 Using undefined style 'function', aliased to style 'normal'.
[WARNING] styles.py:548 Using undefined style 'type', aliased to style 'normal'.

but it's a matter of defining a custom rst2pdf stylesheet. It's json
with a sort of inheritance model, so it should be easy to just extend
the existing stylesheet.

BR,
Jani.

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center