On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:23:47AM -0400, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: > I'll be happy to pull the existing tools out into a separate distribution if > we move to something else for Python. There are too many users of the > existing tools to abandon.
That seems like a straightforward task. The big stumbling block in switching away from LaTeX has always been the effort of making a good conversion; if Georg's work does 80% of the job, we should definitely take advantage of the opportunity and try to switch. Advantages of reST: * The required tool chain shrinks (at least if you're not making printed output, which will probably still go through LaTeX). * Tool chain is now more easily scriptable, and it'll be easier to make use of the docs from Python code. * We can produce XML output through the rst2xml script. Disadvantages: * reST markup isn't much simpler than LaTeX. --amk _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
