title: How to do strikethrough in a reStructuredText file hosted on GitHub?
body: <p>I am converting a <em>README.md</em> file to <em>README.rst</em>. The reason is, I am going to make a package available to PyPi. I am forced to use <strong>.rst</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>My conversion is nearly complete, but I have a strikethrough line in my markdown file, e.g.:</p>
  
  <pre><code>~~This text is crossed out~~
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which renders on GitHub as crossed out. But I am unable to do this in reStructuredText. A <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/6652379/939986">similar post</a> on StackOverflow suggests defining a <strong>strike</strong> like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>.. role:: strike
      :class: strike
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And using something like this in the CSS file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>.strike {
    text-decoration: line-through;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And do strikethrough like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>:strike:`This text is crossed out`
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But the problem is I have no control over CSS file of GitHub.</p>