POD vs. reST for standalone writing?

[Bengt Richter]

On Thu, 1 May 2003 01:06:32 -0400, "Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

>
><eichin at metacarta.com> wrote in message
>news:7gfznz5lld.fsf at pikespeak.metacarta.com...
>> I think I now see what the big difference in usage here is - reST
>> really does have a *primary* use of "read the reST source",
>
>A good example of this are B Cannon's twice monthly summaries of PyDev
>mailing list discussions.  He posts the 'raw' text.  By now, I hardly
>notice the formatting punctuation.  I believe a converted-to-htmo
>version gets added to a web-accesible archive.
>
Is there a command line reST viewing utility that converts to a temp HTML
file and starts a browser to show it? (or just the file -> file conversion,
the rest would be trivial to add).

Regards,
Bengt Richter