M2R converts a markdown file including reStructuredText (rst) markups to a valid rst format.
I wanted to write sphinx document in markdown, since it's widely used now and
easy to write code blocks and lists. However, converters using pandoc or
recommonmark do not support many rst markups and sphinx extensions. For
example, rst's reference link like see `ref`_
(this is very convenient in
long document in which same link appears multiple times) will be converted to
a code block in HTML like see <code>ref</code>_
, which is not expected.
- Basic markdown and some extensions (see below)
- inline/block-level raw html
- fenced-code block
- tables
- footnotes (
[^1]
)
- Inline- and Block-level rst markups
- single- and multi-line directives (
.. directive::
) - inline-roles (
:code:`print(1)` ...
) - ref-link (
see `ref`_
) - footnotes (
[#fn]_
) - math extension inspired by recommonmark
- single- and multi-line directives (
- Sphinx extension
- add markdown support for sphinx
mdinclude
directive to include markdown from md or rst files- option to parse relative links into ref and doc directives (
m2r_parse_relative_links
)
- Pure python implementation
- pandoc is not required
Python 2.7 or Python 3.4+ is required.
pip install m2r
Or,
python3 -m pip install m2r
m2r
command converts markdown file to rst format.
m2r your_document.md [your_document2.md ...]
Then you will find your_document.rst
in the same directory.
Import m2r.convert
function and call it with markdown text.
Then it will return converted text.
from m2r import convert
rst = convert('# Title\n\nSentence.')
print(rst)
# Title
# =====
#
# Sentence.
Or, use parse_from_file
function to load markdown file and obtain converted
text.
from m2r import parse_from_file
output = parse_from_file('markdown_file.md')
This is an example of setup.py to write README in markdown, and publish it to PyPI as rst format.
readme_file = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), 'README.md')
try:
from m2r import parse_from_file
readme = parse_from_file(readme_file)
except ImportError:
# m2r may not be installed in user environment
with open(readme_file) as f:
readme = f.read()
setup(
...,
long_description=readme,
...,
)
In your conf.py, add the following lines.
extensions = [
...,
'm2r',
]
# source_suffix = '.rst'
source_suffix = ['.rst', '.md']
Write index.md and run make html
.
When m2r
extension is enabled on sphinx and .md
file is loaded, m2r
converts to rst and pass to sphinx, not making new .rst
file.
Like .. include:: file
directive, .. mdinclude:: file
directive inserts
markdown file at the line.
Note: do not use .. include:: file
directive to include markdown file even if
in the markdown file, please use .. mdinclude:: file
instead.
- In the rst's directives, markdown is not available. Please write in rst.
- Column alignment of tables is not supported. (rst does not support this feature)
- Heading with overline-and-underline is not supported.
- Heading with underline is OK
- Rst heading marks are currently hard-coded and unchangeable.
- H1:
=
, H2:-
, H3:^
, H4:~
, H5:"
, H6:#
- H1:
If you find any bug or unexpected behaviour, please report it to Issues.
See example document and its source code.
I'm using m2r for writing user guide of WDOM. So you can see it as another example. Its HTML is here, and its source code is here.
Demo editor of m2r is available. If you are interested in m2r, please try it.
https://github.com/miyakogi/m2rdemo
m2r is written as an extension of mistune, which is highly extensible pure-python markdown parser. Without the mistune, I couldn't write this. Thank you!