rst support

Is there a way to test locally how .rst (restructured text) would look like on github?

[joeyespo]

I still don’t have a strong intention to include this since GitHub’s Readme API doesn’t support it. But since this keeps coming up (#92, #37, #113), and with the newfound focus on the offline renderer (#35), it might be worth taking a serious look.

Keeping this open for discussion and implementation advice.

[pdurbin]

https://github.com/github/markup is described as “The code we use to render README.your_favorite_markup” so I would guess that the list of supported formats there (which includes .rst) matters more to users of grip than the list of supported formats for the API that grip calls ( https://developer.github.com/v3/markdown/ ). To end users of grip, the calling of that API probably feels like an implementation detail of how grip works internally.

https://github.com/github/markup/blob/master/lib/github/commands/rest2html appears to be the Python script GitHub uses to turn .rst files into HTML. I kind of feel like that whole library could/should be wrapped by grip or something similar. That way you’d get all the formats.