Editing ReStructuredText (section)

== Applications ==
reStructuredText is commonly used for technical documentation, for example, in documentation of Python libraries.<ref>{{cite web
| last=Goodger
| first=David
| title=PEP 287 -- reStructuredText Docstring Format
| date=2002-04-02
| url=https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0287/
| publisher=[[Python Software Foundation]]
| access-date=2016-10-05}}</ref> However, it is suitable for a wide range of texts.

Since 2008, reST has been a core component of Python's [[Sphinx (documentation generator)|Sphinx]] document generation system.

[[Trac]] also supports reStructuredText,<ref>{{cite web
| url=https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/WikiRestructuredText
| title=reStructuredText Support in Trac
| date=2016-09-13
| publisher=[[Trac]]
| access-date=2016-10-05}}</ref> as do [[GitHub]] and [[Bitbucket]].

In 2011, [[Distributed Proofreaders]], which prepared texts for [[Project Gutenberg]], was considering adoption of reST as a basic format from which other ebook formats could be generated.<ref>{{cite web
  | last = Newby
  | first = Greg
  | title = Minutes of 2010 December 11 meeting
  | publisher = Distributed Proofreaders
  | date = 2011-01-08
  | url = http://www.pgdp.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=44456
  |url-access=registration | access-date = 2011-01-08 }}</ref>{{update inline|date=May 2015}}

In July 2016 the [[Linux kernel]] project decided to transition from [[DocBook]] based documentation to reStructuredText and the [[Sphinx (documentation generator)|Sphinx]] toolchain.<ref>{{cite web
  | title = Kernel documentation with Sphinx, part 1: how we got here
  | publisher =  LWN.net
  | date = 2016-07-06
  | url = http://lwn.net/Articles/692704/
  | access-date = 2016-10-27 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| title=Sphinx. Linux kernel
| publisher = Wikipedia
| date = 2024-04-02
| url = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_(documentation_generator)#Linux_kernel
| access-date = 2024-04-02}}</ref>{{Circular reference|date=May 2024}}

The software build tool [[CMake]] switched from a custom markup language to reStructuredText in version 3.0 for its documentation.<ref>{{cite web
  | title = CMake 3.0.0 Release Notes
  | publisher =  Kitware, Inc.
  | date = 2014-06-10
  | url = https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/release/3.0.0.html
  | access-date = 2016-10-05 }}</ref>