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reStructuredText Standard Definition Files
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:Author: David Goodger
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:Date: $Date: 2022-04-02 23:59:06 +0200 (Sa, 02. Apr 2022) $
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This document describes standard definition files, such as sets of
substitution definitions and interpreted text roles, that can be
included in reStructuredText documents. The `"include" directive`__
has a special syntax for these standard definition files, angle
brackets around the file name::
.. include:: <filename.txt>
__ directives.html#include
The individual data files are stored with the Docutils source code in
the "docutils" package, in the ``docutils/parsers/rst/include``
directory.
Substitution Definitions
========================
Many of the standard definition files contain sets of `substitution
definitions`__, which can be used in documents via `substitution
references`__. For example, the copyright symbol is defined in
``isonum.txt`` as "copy"::
.. include:: <isonum.txt>
Copyright |copy| 2003 by John Q. Public, all rights reserved.
__ restructuredtext.html#substitution-definitions
__ restructuredtext.html#substitution-references
Individual substitution definitions can also be copied from definition
files and pasted into documents. This has two advantages: it removes
dependencies, and it saves processing of unused definitions. However,
multiple substitution definitions add clutter to the document.
Substitution references require separation from the surrounding text
with whitespace or punctuation. To use a substitution without
intervening whitespace, you can use the disappearing-whitespace escape
sequence, backslash-space::
.. include:: isonum.txt
Copyright |copy| 2003, BogusMegaCorp\ |trade|.
Custom substitution definitions may use the `"unicode" directive`__.
Whitespace is ignored and removed, effectively sqeezing together the
text::
.. |copy| unicode:: U+000A9 .. COPYRIGHT SIGN
.. |BogusMegaCorp (TM)| unicode:: BogusMegaCorp U+2122
.. with trademark sign
Copyright |copy| 2003, |BogusMegaCorp (TM)|.
__ directives.html#unicode
In addition, the "ltrim", "rtrim", and "trim" options may be used with
the "unicode" directive to automatically trim spaces from the left,
right, or both sides (respectively) of substitution references::
.. |---| unicode:: U+02014 .. em dash
:trim:
Character Entity Sets
---------------------
The following files contain substitution definitions corresponding to
XML character entity sets, from the following standards: ISO 8879 &
ISO 9573-13 (combined), MathML, and XHTML1. They were generated by
the ``tools/dev/unicode2rstsubs.py`` program from the input file
unicode.xml__, which is maintained as part of the MathML 2
Recommentation XML source.
__ https://www.w3.org/2003/entities/xml/
=================== =================================================
Entity Set File Description
=================== =================================================
isoamsa.txt_ Added Mathematical Symbols: Arrows
isoamsb.txt_ Added Mathematical Symbols: Binary Operators
isoamsc.txt_ Added Mathematical Symbols: Delimiters
isoamsn.txt_ Added Mathematical Symbols: Negated Relations
isoamso.txt_ Added Mathematical Symbols: Ordinary
isoamsr.txt_ Added Mathematical Symbols: Relations
isobox.txt_ Box and Line Drawing
isocyr1.txt_ Russian Cyrillic
isocyr2.txt_ Non-Russian Cyrillic
isodia.txt_ Diacritical Marks
isogrk1.txt_ Greek Letters
isogrk2.txt_ Monotoniko Greek
isogrk3.txt_ Greek Symbols
isogrk4.txt_ [1]_ Alternative Greek Symbols
isolat1.txt_ Added Latin 1
isolat2.txt_ Added Latin 2
isomfrk.txt_ [1]_ Mathematical Fraktur
isomopf.txt_ [1]_ Mathematical Openface (Double-struck)
isomscr.txt_ [1]_ Mathematical Script
isonum.txt_ Numeric and Special Graphic
isopub.txt_ Publishing
isotech.txt_ General Technical
mmlalias.txt_ MathML aliases for entities from other sets
mmlextra.txt_ [1]_ Extra names added by MathML
xhtml1-lat1.txt_ XHTML Latin 1
xhtml1-special.txt_ XHTML Special Characters
xhtml1-symbol.txt_ XHTML Mathematical, Greek and Symbolic Characters
=================== =================================================
.. [1] There are ``*-wide.txt`` variants for each of these character
entity set files, containing characters outside of the Unicode
basic multilingual plane or BMP (wide-Unicode; code points greater
than U+FFFF). Most pre-built Python distributions are "narrow" and
do not support wide-Unicode characters. Python *can* be built with
wide-Unicode support though; consult the Python build instructions
for details.
For example, the copyright symbol is defined as the XML character
entity ``©``. The equivalent reStructuredText substitution
reference (defined in both ``isonum.txt`` and ``xhtml1-lat1.txt``) is
``|copy|``.
.. _isoamsa.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isoamsa.txt
.. _isoamsb.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isoamsb.txt
.. _isoamsc.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isoamsc.txt
.. _isoamsn.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isoamsn.txt
.. _isoamso.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isoamso.txt
.. _isoamsr.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isoamsr.txt
.. _isobox.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isobox.txt
.. _isocyr1.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isocyr1.txt
.. _isocyr2.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isocyr2.txt
.. _isodia.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isodia.txt
.. _isogrk1.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isogrk1.txt
.. _isogrk2.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isogrk2.txt
.. _isogrk3.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isogrk3.txt
.. _isogrk4.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isogrk4.txt
.. _isolat1.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isolat1.txt
.. _isolat2.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isolat2.txt
.. _isomfrk.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isomfrk.txt
.. _isomopf.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isomopf.txt
.. _isomscr.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isomscr.txt
.. _isonum.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isonum.txt
.. _isopub.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isopub.txt
.. _isotech.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/isotech.txt
.. _mmlalias.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/mmlalias.txt
.. _mmlextra.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/mmlextra.txt
.. _xhtml1-lat1.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/xhtml1-lat1.txt
.. _xhtml1-special.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/xhtml1-special.txt
.. _xhtml1-symbol.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/xhtml1-symbol.txt
S5/HTML Definitions
===================
The "s5defs.txt_" standard definition file contains interpreted text
roles (classes) and other definitions for documents destined to become
`S5/HTML slide shows`_.
.. _s5defs.txt: ../../../docutils/parsers/rst/include/s5defs.txt
.. _S5/HTML slide shows: ../../user/slide-shows.html
..
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