import { Settings } from "./settings.js";
import { Document, LoggerType } from "./types.js";
/**
 * Return a new empty document object.
 *
 * :Parameters:
 * `source_path` : string
 * The path to or description of the source text of the document.
 * `settings` : optparse.Values object
 * Runtime settings.  If none are provided, a default core set will
 * be used.  If you will use the document object with any Docutils
 * components, you must provide their default settings as well.  For
 * example, if parsing, at least provide the parser settings,
 * obtainable as follows::
 *
 * settings = docutils.frontend.OptionParser(
 * components=(docutils.parsers.rst.Parser,)
 * ).get_default_values()
 * {@link module:nodes~document}
 * @returns {module:nodes~document} New document
 * @see module:newDocument~newDocument
 */
declare function newDocument(args: {
    sourcePath: string;
    logger: LoggerType;
}, settings?: Settings): Document;
export { newDocument };
export default newDocument;