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; }
Try something like this: >>> from docutils.core import publish_string >>> publish_string(“*anurag*”, writer_name=”html”) publish_string accepts a strings and outputs a string or you can use publish_parts to get specific parts of html document e.g. >>> from docutils.core import publish_parts >>> print publish_parts(“*anurag*”, writer_name=”html”)[‘html_body’] <p><em>anurag</em></p>