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=======================================================================
                            General Advice
=======================================================================

Read the section *Features Not Implemented* in the manual first.

*Note*: if you happen to read this on BitBucket_, the error messages
some lines below just mean that *their* implementation doesn’t
understand |TeX| directives.  Don’t worry, |rstcontext| does.

=======================================================================
                             Installation
=======================================================================
With ConTeXt Standalone
***********************
An up to date version of the module is installed along with the ConTeXt
distribution (*Standalone*, formerly known as *The Minimals*).
The module should be working out of the box if you installed from the
official source_ and provided the parameter ``--modules=all``.

.. _source: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone#Installing_third_party_modules

Manually
********
Firstly, get the module source from BitBucket_ (see the *downloads*
section).
In order to install |rstcontext|, copy everything in the ``mod/``
subdirectory into your local |CONTEXT| tree and update the filename
database, i.e. ::

    cp -r mod/* ~/context/tex/texmf-local/
    context --generate

if the |CONTEXT| minimal distribution happens to be installed at
``~/context/``.

=======================================================================
                                 Usage
=======================================================================

As rstConTeXt was developed on *texlua*, you may expect it to run best
with this interpreter. For now the script accepts two command line
arguments: the input file and the output file. The following will
demonstrate the main usage in a separate directory: ::

    mkdir tmp; cd tmp
    mtxrun --script rst --if=../mod/doc/context/third/rst/documentation.rst --of=doc.tex
    context ../mod/doc/context/third/rst/manual.tex

This should have gotten you the manual converted to a file ``doc.tex``
which was subsequently run through |CONTEXT| to generate the final
``manual.pdf``. You will find extended instructions on how to build the
manual with some cosmetic improvements in the section *Usage* of the
manual itself.

There is also a small module ``t-rst.mkiv`` which permits direct
typesetting of reST markup with |CONTEXT| MkIV. For usage examples see
the files ``hybridtest.tex`` and ``moduletest.tex`` in the ``doc``
subdirectory.

=======================================================================
                                License
=======================================================================

|rstcontext| is free software and may be redistributed under the terms
of the 2-clause BSD license. You should have recieved a copy of this
license in a file named “COPYING” in the source tree. If there is no
such file then please contact the maintainer_ (Contact_).

=======================================================================
                                Contact
=======================================================================

|rstcontext| was written by Philipp Gesang, ``phg42.2a`` at ``gmail``
dot ``com``.

.. |rstcontext| ctx:: {{\em rst}\kern.5pt\CONTEXT}
.. |TeX| ctx:: {\TEX}
.. |CONTEXT| ctx:: {\CONTEXT}

.. _Contact: phg42.2a@gmail.com
.. _BitBucket:  http://bitbucket.org/phg/context-rst
.. _maintainer: Contact_