You need the unicode directive, but it can only be used in substitutions. So you need to define a substitution like this: .. |nbsp| unicode:: 0xA0 :trim: and then use it like this: xx |nbsp| xx :trim: is there to get rid of those spaces around the substitution.
In the latest versions of Sphinx (1.3+), numbering figures and referencing them from text got a bit easier as support for it is now built-in. In your text, you can do something like: .. _label: .. figure:: images/figure.* At :numref:`label` you can see… The end result should be something like “At Fig 1.1 you can … Read more
To open a page in a new window or tag you can add the attribute target=”_blank” to your hyperlink although I’m not sure how you can add attributes to inline hyperlinks in reStructuredText. However, from the Docutils FAQ, is nested inline markup possible, you can use the raw directive to include raw HTML into your … Read more
I checked the docs better, as suggested by Ville Säävuori, and I decided to add the strikethrough like this: .. role:: strike :class: strike In the document, this can be applied as follows: :strike:`This text is crossed out` Then in my css file I have an entry: .strike { text-decoration: line-through; }
Two ways to do it: in inline images: .. image:: pageflip-200.png :target: pageapplet/index.html With a reference, like: Click on my |ImageLink|_ .. |ImageLink| image:: /images/link.png .. _ImageLink: http://link.url/
Salvaging (and extending) the list from an old version of the Wikipedia page: Documentation Primer Cheat Sheet Quick Reference Implementations Although the reference implementation of reStructuredText is written in Python, there are reStructuredText parsers in other languages too. Python – Docutils The main distribution of reStructuredText is the Python Docutils package. It contains several conversion … Read more
Having looked into this some more I stumbled upon the document reStructuredText Interpreted Text Roles. From this document: Interpreted text uses backquotes (`) around the text. An explicit role marker may optionally appear before or after the text, delimited with colons. For example: This is `interpreted text` using the default role. This is :title:`interpreted text` … Read more