[Doc-SIG] The Use of Roles

[Aahz]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003, David Priest wrote:
> 
> Why not allow users to add Roles in much the same manner that Directives 
> can be added?  I'd much rather hack an __init__ file and add a .py role- 
> handler, than hack the Docutils source itself.

It's not much more difficult.  Read
docutils/parsers/rst/__init__.py

Mainly, you need to subclass from rst.states.Inliner, and you'll need to
update rst.languages.en.roles when your module gets imported.
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