How to avoid implicit mailto link in Restructured Text? - restructuredtext

I'm new to Restructured Text and am trying to write a document that refers to a project with an "at" sign in the name, something like "Foo#BAR". When I convert the .rst file into HTML using the docutils "rst2html" tool, this is converted into a "mailto" link. If I use double backticks for verbatim rendering, it is turned into monospace text. How can I get it to be rendered in the normal text font, and not converted into a link?

You can use character escaping to include an # within a word. In reStructuredText the escape character is \, so try using Foo\#BAR in your document.

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What do these characters mean?(ANSI Code)

It's the code I'm printing with node:
const m = `[38;5;1;48;5;16m TEST`
console.log(m)
output:
It changes the text color.
As you can see `` is a special char I don't understand(It's not being shown by the browser). How does it work?
Is there any alternative for ESC?
As #puucee already mentions they are terminal control characters. I find it surprising that it says ESC[ in the code as that won't be escaped in normal node. I suspect that maybe your IDE is converting the "true" escape character to ESC. Node does not support octal escapes (such as \033), but hexadecimal escapes. That is, you string should usually be like this:
console.log('\x1b[38;5;1;48;5;16m TEST \x1b[0m')
These are terminal control characters. They are often used e.g. for coloring the output. Some are non-printable. Backticks ` in your javascript example are called template literals.

paste0 regular and italicized text in R

I need to concatenate two strings within an R object: one is just regular text; the other is italicized. So, I tried a lot of combinations, e.g.
paste0(" This is Regular", italic( This is Italics))
The desired result should be:
This is Regular This is Italics
Any ideia on how to do it?
Thanks!
In plot labels, you can use expressions, see mathematical annotation :
plot(1,xlab=expression("This is regular"~italic("this is italic")))
To provide an string for which an HTML parser will recognise the need to render the text in Italics, wrap the text in <i> and </i>. For example: "This is plain text, but <i>this is in Italics</i>.".
However, most HTML processors will assume that you want your text to appear as-is and will escape their input by default. This means that the special meanings of certain characters - including < and > will be "turned off". You need to tell the processor not to do this. How you do that will depend on context. I can't tell you that because you haven't given me context.
Are you for example, writing to a raw HTML file? (You need do nothing.) Are you writing to a Markdown file? If so, how? In plain text or in a rendered chunk? Are you writing a caption to a graphic? (Waldi has suggested a solution.) Etc, etc....

How to present some text containing stars (*) in bold by RestructuredText?

I need to present in bold the text
xyz:abc:01******-*.***
by RestructuredText syntax. Could you help me?
Thank you
In general you could use a backslash character ("\"r) in front of characters which have a particular meaning in reStructuredText different from beeing "just a character". If you want to display asterisks in you text just user "\*".
The text from your example above should be then
xyz:abc:01\*\*\*\*\*\*-\*.\*\*\*

Convert characters to html equivalent using .net

I have a text document that is a roster of licensees. I am looping through this document to create a html table of this data. I've come across names with non standard characters.
This is one of them
Aimeé
I tried running all the inputs through the following function, but when it comes across the above character it doesn't replace it.
Function ReplaceBadCharacters(ByVal input As String) As String
Return input.Replace(Chr(233), "é")
End Function
How can I replace each character with the html equivalent?
EDIT
When I debug the above function it shows the input as Aime[] and not Aimeé.
In Chrome it looks like this Aime�
You don't need to do that.
As long as your page is encoded as UTF8, the characters will work fine.
However, you do need to call Server.HtmlEncode to escape HTML special characters.
(Unless you're printing the strings in a <%: %> block or a Razor # block, which escapes them for you)
é is in the current ASCII char set. If you put that into the HTML, it will render correctly (just like how it shows up correctly in the browser when you look at this page)
but if you want to replace all instances of it, use this instead é
input.Replace("é", "é")

What is the best invisible character can I use to replace ?

I use some telerik report to print some report.
I need to use Telerik.Reporting.TextBox to print labels.
Some labels are stock in .txt files, like " Apple".
When I see a label with spaces, it means I have to indent it in the report, so in the TextBox.
The thing is when we export the report in pdf, we have the indentation, but not when we see in the browser. If I replace the spaces by "& nbsp;", we see the indentation in the browser, but when exporting to pdf, we see the "& nbsp;".
One way to do this is to use HtmlTextBox, so both the browser and the export works fine, but we have other constraints that says we must keep the TextBox.
My idea is to replace the spaces by a blank character, an invisble one, like alt+0160, but there is a lot of choice, and I want the one that will work in any browser, any export (TIFF, PDF, Excel...).
Is someone have a good clue about this choice ?
You could use Unicode code point U+00A0 (non-breaking space), which is what the entity represents. How this should be encoded in your document depends on the character set in use.
You can replace the with ""

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