Purpose

The purpose of the Docutils project is to create a set of tools for processing plaintext documentation into useful formats, such as HTML, XML, and TeX. Support for the following sources has been implemented:

• Standalone files.
• PEPs (Python Enhancement Proposals).

Support for the following sources is planned:

• Inline documentation from Python modules and packages, extracted with namespace context. This is the focus of the current development effort.
• Email (RFC-822 headers, quoted excerpts, signatures, MIME parts).
• Wikis, with global reference lookups of "wiki links".
• Compound documents, such as multiple chapter files merged into a book.
• And others as discovered.