diff --git a/defaults/main.yml b/defaults/main.yml
index 53f24d4..de34e5f 100644
--- a/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/defaults/main.yml
@@ -122,6 +122,11 @@ gitea_markup_markdown_conf:
   - { section: 'markup.markdown', option: 'ENABLED', value: '{{ gitea_markup_markdown_enabled }}', state: 'present' }
   - { section: 'markup.markdown', option: 'FILE_EXTENSIONS', value: '.md,.markdown', state: 'present' }
   - { section: 'markup.markdown', option: 'RENDER_COMMAND', value: 'pandoc -f markdown -t html --katex', state: 'present' }
+gitea_markup_rst_enabled: 'true'
+gitea_markup_rst_conf:
+  - { section: 'markup.restructuredtext', option: 'ENABLED', value: '{{ gitea_markup_rst_enabled }}', state: 'present' }
+  - { section: 'markup.restructuredtext', option: 'FILE_EXTENSIONS', value: '.rst', state: 'present' }
+  - { section: 'markup.restructuredtext', option: 'RENDER_COMMAND', value: 'timeout 30s pandoc +RTS -M512M -RTS -f rst', state: 'present' }
 
 gitea_prometheus_metrics: 'false'
 #gitea_prometheus_bearer_token: put it into a vault file