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README.rst

@@ -24,12 +24,12 @@ Features
 * Write API similar to the one used by IOStreams but much faster and more
   consistent.
 * Format API with `format string syntax
-  <http://cppformat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#format-string-syntax>`__
+  <http://cppformat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#format-string-syntax>`_
   similar to the one used by `str.format
-  <http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.format>`__ in Python.
+  <http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.format>`_ in Python.
 * Support for user-defined types.
 * High speed: performance of the format API is close to that of
-  glibc's `printf <http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/c/fprintf>`__
+  glibc's `printf <http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/c/fprintf>`_
   and better than performance of IOStreams. See `Speed tests`_ and
   `Fast integer to string conversion in C++
   <http://zverovich.net/2013/09/07/integer-to-string-conversion-in-cplusplus.html>`_.
@@ -37,19 +37,19 @@ Features
   header file and a single source file) and compiled code.
   See `Compile time and code bloat`_.
 * Reliability: the library has an extensive set of `unit tests
-  <https://github.com/cppformat/cppformat/tree/master/test>`__.
+  <https://github.com/cppformat/cppformat/tree/master/test>`_.
 * Safety: the library is fully type safe, errors in format strings are
   reported using exceptions, automatic memory management prevents buffer
   overflow errors.
 * Ease of use: small self-contained code base, no external dependencies,
   permissive BSD `license`_.
-* `Portability <http://cppformat.github.io#portability>`__ with consistent output
+* `Portability <http://cppformat.github.io#portability>`_ with consistent output
   across platforms and support for older compilers.
 * Clean warning-free codebase even on high warning levels
   (-Wall -Wextra -pedantic).
 * Support for wide strings.
 
-See the `documentation <http://cppformat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>`__ for more details.
+See the `documentation <http://cppformat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>`_ for more details.
 
 Examples
 --------
@@ -96,10 +96,10 @@ An object of any user-defined type for which there is an overloaded
     // s == "The date is 2012-12-9"
 
 You can use the `FMT_VARIADIC
-<http://cppformat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#project0format_8h_1a65215c7dfcc0e942cd0798860877e86b>`__
+<http://cppformat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#project0format_8h_1a65215c7dfcc0e942cd0798860877e86b>`_
 macro to create your own functions similar to `format
-<http://cppformat.github.io/doc/latest#fmt::format__StringRef.ArgListCR>`__ and
-`print <http://cppformat.readthedocs.org/en/latest#fmt::print__StringRef.ArgListCR>`__
+<http://cppformat.github.io/doc/latest#fmt::format__StringRef.ArgListCR>`_ and
+`print <http://cppformat.readthedocs.org/en/latest#fmt::print__StringRef.ArgListCR>`_
 which take arbitrary arguments:
 
 .. code-block:: c++
@@ -154,10 +154,10 @@ Printf
 The good thing about printf is that it is very fast and readily available
 being a part of the C standard library. The main drawback is that it
 doesn't support user-defined types. Printf also has safety issues although
-they are mostly solved with `__attribute__ ((format (printf, ...))
-<http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html>`__ in GCC.
+they are mostly solved with `_attribute__ ((format (printf, ...))
+<http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html>`_ in GCC.
 There is a POSIX extension that adds positional arguments required for
-`i18n <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization>`__
+`i18n <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization>`_
 to printf but it is not a part of C99 and may not be available on some
 platforms.
 
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ for completeness. As IOStreams it suffers from the problem of mixing
 verbatim text with arguments. The library is pretty fast, but slower
 on integer formatting than ``fmt::Writer`` on Karma's own benchmark,
 see `Fast integer to string conversion in C++
-<http://zverovich.net/2013/09/07/integer-to-string-conversion-in-cplusplus.html>`__.
+<http://zverovich.net/2013/09/07/integer-to-string-conversion-in-cplusplus.html>`_.
 
 Benchmarks
 ----------
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ The following speed tests results were generated by building
 runs.  In the test, the format string ``"%0.10f:%04d:%+g:%s:%p:%c:%%\n"`` or
 equivalent is filled 2000000 times with output sent to ``/dev/null``; for
 further details see the `source
-<https://github.com/cppformat/format-benchmark/blob/master/tinyformat_test.cpp>`__.
+<https://github.com/cppformat/format-benchmark/blob/master/tinyformat_test.cpp>`_.
 
 ============== ========
 test name      run time
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ boost::format  10.42s
 ============== ========
 
 As you can see boost::format is much slower than the alternative methods; this
-is confirmed by `other tests <http://accu.org/index.php/journals/1539>`__.
+is confirmed by `other tests <http://accu.org/index.php/journals/1539>`_.
 Tinyformat is quite good coming close to IOStreams.  Unfortunately tinyformat
 cannot be faster than the IOStreams because it uses them internally.
 Performance of format is close to that of printf.
@@ -269,8 +269,8 @@ Compile time and code bloat
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 The script `bloat-test.py
-<https://github.com/cppformat/format-benchmark/blob/master/bloat-test.py>`__
-from `format-benchmark <https://github.com/cppformat/format-benchmark>`__
+<https://github.com/cppformat/format-benchmark/blob/master/bloat-test.py>`_
+from `format-benchmark <https://github.com/cppformat/format-benchmark>`_
 tests compile time and code bloat for nontrivial projects.
 It generates 100 translation units and uses ``printf()`` or its alternative
 five times in each to simulate a medium sized project.  The resulting
@@ -318,10 +318,10 @@ To run the unit tests first get the source code by cloning the repository::
     $ git clone https://github.com/cppformat/cppformat.git
 
 or downloading a package from
-`Releases <https://github.com/cppformat/cppformat/releases>`__.
+`Releases <https://github.com/cppformat/cppformat/releases>`_.
 
 Then go to the cppformat directory, generate Makefiles with
-`CMake <http://www.cmake.org/>`__ and build the project::
+`CMake <http://www.cmake.org/>`_ and build the project::
 
     $ cd cppformat
     $ cmake .
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ Now you can run the unit tests::
     $ make test
 
 Benchmarks reside in a separate repository,
-`format-benchmarks <https://github.com/cppformat/format-benchmark>`__,
+`format-benchmarks <https://github.com/cppformat/format-benchmark>`_,
 so to run the benchmarks you first need to clone this repository and
 generate Makefiles with CMake::
 
@@ -379,31 +379,31 @@ Documentation License
 ---------------------
 
 The `Format String Syntax
-<http://cppformat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#format-string-syntax>`__
+<http://cppformat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#format-string-syntax>`_
 section in the documentation is based on the one from Python `string module
-documentation <http://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#module-string>`__
+documentation <http://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#module-string>`_
 adapted for the current library. For this reason the documentation is
 distributed under the Python Software Foundation license available in
 `doc/LICENSE.python
-<https://raw.github.com/cppformat/cppformat/master/doc/LICENSE.python>`__.
+<https://raw.github.com/cppformat/cppformat/master/doc/LICENSE.python>`_.
 
 Acknowledgments
 ---------------
 
 The benchmark section of this readme file and the performance tests are taken
-from the excellent `tinyformat <https://github.com/c42f/tinyformat>`__ library
+from the excellent `tinyformat <https://github.com/c42f/tinyformat>`_ library
 written by Chris Foster.  Boost Format library is acknowledged transitively
 since it had some influence on tinyformat.
 Some ideas used in the implementation are borrowed from `Loki
-<http://loki-lib.sourceforge.net/>`__ SafeFormat and `Diagnostic API
-<http://clang.llvm.org/doxygen/classclang_1_1Diagnostic.html>`__ in
-`Clang <http://clang.llvm.org/>`__.
+<http://loki-lib.sourceforge.net/>`_ SafeFormat and `Diagnostic API
+<http://clang.llvm.org/doxygen/classclang_1_1Diagnostic.html>`_ in
+`Clang <http://clang.llvm.org/>`_.
 Format string syntax and the documentation are based on Python's `str.format
-<http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.format>`__.
-Thanks `Doug Turnbull <https://github.com/softwaredoug>`__ for his valuable
+<http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.format>`_.
+Thanks `Doug Turnbull <https://github.com/softwaredoug>`_ for his valuable
 comments and contribution to the design of the type-safe API and
-`Gregory Czajkowski <https://github.com/gcflymoto>`__ for implementing binary
-formatting. Thanks `Ruslan Baratov <https://github.com/ruslo>`__ for comprehensive
-`comparison of integer formatting algorithms <https://github.com/ruslo/int-dec-format-tests>`__
-and useful comments regarding performance, `Boris Kaul <https://github.com/localvoid>`__ for
-`C++ counting digits benchmark <https://github.com/localvoid/cxx-benchmark-count-digits>`__.
+`Gregory Czajkowski <https://github.com/gcflymoto>`_ for implementing binary
+formatting. Thanks `Ruslan Baratov <https://github.com/ruslo>`_ for comprehensive
+`comparison of integer formatting algorithms <https://github.com/ruslo/int-dec-format-tests>`_
+and useful comments regarding performance, `Boris Kaul <https://github.com/localvoid>`_ for
+`C++ counting digits benchmark <https://github.com/localvoid/cxx-benchmark-count-digits>`_.