Vim reStructured Text

What is VST?

VST is an easy way to produce:

• HTML

• S5 Slides, like this document

• LaTeX and PDF

from reStructured text: plain text with minimal markup.

The powerful Vim editor is used to prepare the material.

Please read the source of these slides to see how the effects used herein are achieved.

Simple markup

• Bulleted Lists

• Numeric lists (nested)

  1. Bold text

  2. Italics text

  3. typewriter text

• Subscripts, H₂O.

• Replacement -- Vim reStructured Text -- of text.

Blockquotes

You can embed blockquotes inside your text:

 Simple markup
 ==============

 + Bulleted Lists
 + Numeric lists (nested)

     #. **Bold** text
     2. *Italics* text
     #. ``typewriter`` text

 + Replacement -- |VST| -- of text.

is most of the text of the previous slide.

Links

VST supports a variety of hyperlink notations.

• Starting points: What is VST?

• External links

• Internal links, such as source

• Standalone links, http://www.vim.org

• Embedded URIs

The full effect of these links cannot be seen in the S5 slides. Regenerate with :Vst instead.

Images

Simple Tables

Rich Tables

 Welcome to world  
 of preformatted   
 text.

Conclusion

VST is an easy way to produce marked-up documents with easy-to-read source, in Vim.

This slideshow displays only a few features of VST. Be sure to read the manual.