| Author: | Hartmut Goebel <[email protected]> |
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| Copyright: | 2015 by Hartmut Goebel |
| Licence: | GNU General Public Licence v3 or later (GPLv3+) |
This tool allows you writing documentation directly into YAML-files as comments. These comments will then be converted to text and the YAML-code goes into literal blocks.
This is some kind of literate programming, except that you do not write code into your text, but text into your code. This difference allows to process the YAML file directly without any pre-processing.
Usage:
yaml2rst [-h] infile outfile positional arguments: infile YAML-file to read (`-` for stdin) outfile rst-file to write (`-` for stdout) optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit
This script takes all lines beginning with # (and lines
consisting of only a #) as text-lines. Everything else will be
treated as "code". The text-lines will get the # removed
and the "code" will get spaces prepended.
Additionally at the start and at the end of a "code"-block, lines are
added as required by reStructuredText. Also at the begin of a
"code"-block, a :: is added if required.
You can find example yaml-input, rst-output and generated html in the examples directory. You may also view the generated html online at https://rawgit.com/htgoebel/yaml2rst/develop/examples/main.html.