Enable reStructuredText in Trac

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Can reStructuredText support be enabled in our Trac installation?

​trac:WikiRestructuredText

Its table syntax might be preferable to Trac's builtin syntax in some cases, like on wiki:Mirrors where row spanning isn't working quite right.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Here's an example which currently renders the source but should render a table if rst were enabled:

Header 1	Header 2	Header 3
body row 1	column 2	column 3
body row 2	RestructuredText
body row 3	Cells may span rows.	Cells contain blocks.
body row 4

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Thanks.

I wish that tables created with WikiRestructuredText:

rST

table

would have the same default appearance as tables created with WikiFormatting:

wiki

table

rST tables get the class "docutils" while other tables get the class "wiki". Is there any configuration option where they would both get the same class?

Also, rST tables are inside two unnecessary divs as compared with wiki tables, one of which causes undesired indentation. I don't suppose there's any way to avoid those divs...

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

There's no simple way for us to avoid the divs. As for the formatting, I guess we could ship additional CSS that would adapt the formatting to match. I have not looked into how this would be done for trac. It may be possible to add the required rules to ​/chrome/site/style.css.