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========================
The Docutils Publisher
========================
:Author: David Goodger
:Contact: goodger@python.org
:Date: $Date$
:Revision: $Revision$
:Copyright: This document has been placed in the public domain.
.. contents::
Publisher Convenience Functions
===============================
Each of these functions set up a ``docutils.core.Publisher`` object,
then call its ``publish`` method. ``docutils.core.Publisher.publish``
handles everything else. There are five convenience functions in the
``docutils.core`` module:
* ``publish_cmdline``: for command-line front-end tools, like
``rst2html.py``. There are several examples in the ``tools/``
directory. A detailed analysis of one such tool is in `Inside A
Docutils Command-Line Front-End Tool`_
* ``publish_file``: for programmatic use with file-like I/O. In
addition to writing the encoded output to a file, also returns the
encoded output as a string.
* ``publish_string``: for programmatic use with string I/O. Returns
the encoded output as a string.
* ``publish_parts``: for programmatic use with string input; returns a
dictionary of document parts. Dictionary keys are the names of
parts, and values are Unicode strings; encoding is up to the client.
Useful when only portions of the processed document are desired.
Currently only implemented for the HTML Writer.
There are examples in the ``docutils/examples.py`` module.
* ``publish_programmatically``: for custom programmatic use. This
function implements common code and is used by ``publish_file``,
``publish_string``, and ``publish_parts``. It returns a 2-tuple:
the encoded string output and the Publisher object.
.. _Inside A Docutils Command-Line Front-End Tool: ./cmdline-tool.html
Configuration
-------------
To pass application-specific setting defaults to the Publisher
convenience functions, use the ``settings_overrides`` parameter. Pass
a dictionary of setting names & values, like this::
overrides = {'input_encoding': 'ascii',
'output_encoding': 'latin-1'}
output = publish_string(..., settings_overrides=overrides)
Settings from command-line options override configuration file
settings, and they override application defaults. For details, see
`Docutils Runtime Settings`_. See `Docutils Configuration Files`_ for
details about individual settings.
.. _Docutils Runtime Settings: ./runtime-settings.html
.. _Docutils Configuration Files: ../user/tools.html
Encodings
---------
The default output encoding of Docutils is UTF-8. If you have any
non-ASCII in your input text, you may have to do a bit more setup.
Docutils may introduce some non-ASCII text if you use
symbol-footnotes_.
.. _symbol-footnotes:
../ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#auto-symbol-footnotes
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