Substituting text (was: Possibly Dumb RestructuredText Question)

Ben Finney <[email protected]>
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Tim Daneliuk <[email protected]> writes:

> I've been using RST for some years with great success but I have a sort
> of dumb question.  In the old nroff/troff and even LaTeX days, there
> were ways to define text aliases and reference them later in the
> document.

reST has substitution directives, I think that'll do what you want
<URL:http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#directives-for-substitution-definitions>.

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