this is a trend. reST and sphinx are also the primary tools we'll be
using for a 2nd edition of Python Web Development with Django when the
time becomes appropriate.
interestingly enough, i've got a talk which covers the use of open
source tools in writing books with coming up at PyCon. i'd love t
I can't remember if I mentioned it on the list or not, but in December,
I finished a novel-ish book using restructuredText and Sphinx. I had to
edit the LaTeX a little bit to fix a few things. The book came out
pretty well.
I wrote a blog entry about it here:
http://bluesock.org/~willg/blog
The sci-fi author Charles Stross is experimenting with using
reStructuredText and vim to write his next book. The comment thread
has some interesting details about using version control and other
tools for authoring.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/01/writing-tools.html
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