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reStructuredText Reference

Example based gentle reference of the reStructuredText and Sphinx syntax, directives, roles and common issues. It demonstrates almost all the markup making it also good for testing Sphinx themes. Free and open-source.

Intro

  • reStructuredText overview
  • Directives and roles
  • Sphinx and Docutils
  • Tools and editors

Collections

  • Admonitions
  • Body elements
  • Code examples
  • Images
  • Inline elements
  • Lists
  • Document parts
  • Semantic elements
  • Sphinx additions

Elements

  • admonition
  • attention
  • caution
  • code-block
  • contents
  • danger
  • emphasis
  • enumerated-list
  • error
  • figure
  • file
  • hint
  • image
  • important
  • inline image
  • inline literal
  • literal-block
  • note
  • paragraph
  • parsed-literal-block
  • rubric
  • section
  • seealso
  • sidebar
  • strong emphasis
  • subscript
  • substitution
  • superscript
  • tip
  • toctree
  • topic
  • transition
  • warning

Etc.

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reStructuredText Reference Contents without backlinks

Contents without backlinks#

Testing contents:: directive without backlinks.

Contents

  • Contents without backlinks

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Section L2#

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