Converting RST files? Anyone have tips?

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RobertHays2021
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Converting RST files? Anyone have tips?

Post by RobertHays2021 »

I have an entire project created in Python, and have done some pretty extensive searches looking for a file converter that will take the files in the Git repository and convert them into something Flare can use.

So far, nothing that works all that well. Has anyone here had to do a mass conversion of a help system created using PYthon? Have any tips on how to get it done? I am quite willing at this point to spend some money on software if it will help.

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Re: Converting RST files? Anyone have tips?

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If you generated the docs in Python-Markdown or Sphinx markdown or almost any markdown, you might get better results by using Pandoc to convert them to xhtml and then importing those into Flare. I'm in the middle of a conversion project and Pandoc saved me many hours of clean-up work. Flare has a better understanding of the xhtml than markdown.

There will still be clean up, but not as much as with in straight markdown import.

https://pandoc.org/index.html
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