Docutils rst2html.py gives <Error/3> Unknown Directive type "toctree"

[Calvin Cheng]

Hi,

I am attempting to convert a bunch of .txt files into html using the
docutils package.

It works for most of the txt files except for the index.txt file which
gives 2 errors:
(1) <Error/3> Unknown Directive type "toctree"
(2) (ERROR/3) Unknown interpreted text role "ref".

Any idea how I can fix this?

Would be glad if someone who is familiar with docutils could point me
in the right direction.

Thank you,
Calvin

 

[Thijs Triemstra | Collab]

Getting the same error in the apache logs here, no idea where it's
coming from:

[Sun Jun 29 18:25:50 2008] [error] <string>:10: (ERROR/3) Unknown
directive type "toctree".
[Sun Jun 29 18:25:50 2008] [error]
[Sun Jun 29 18:25:50 2008] [error] .. toctree::
[Sun Jun 29 18:25:50 2008] [error] :maxdepth: 2
[Sun Jun 29 18:25:50 2008] [error]
[Sun Jun 29 18:25:50 2008] [error] <string>:16: (ERROR/3) Unknown
interpreted text role "ref".
[Sun Jun 29 18:25:50 2008] [error] <string>:17: (ERROR/3) Unknown
interpreted text role "ref".
[Sun Jun 29 18:25:50 2008] [error] <string>:18: (ERROR/3) Unknown
interpreted text role "ref".

 

[Gerard Flanagan]

Hi,

I am attempting to convert a bunch of .txt files into html using the
docutils package.

It works for most of the txt files except for the index.txt file which
gives 2 errors:
(1) <Error/3> Unknown Directive type "toctree"
(2) (ERROR/3) Unknown interpreted text role "ref".

Any idea how I can fix this?

Would be glad if someone who is familiar with docutils could point me
in the right direction.

"toctree" is a directive specific to the sphinx documentation system:

http://sphinx.pocoo.org/concepts.html#the-toc-tree

You must have something like:

.. toctree::

in your file. docutils won't recognise this.

G.