Re: [Python-authors] Charles Stross is using reStructuredText for his next book

2010-01-16 Thread wesley chun
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

Re: [Python-authors] Charles Stross is using reStructuredText for his next book

2010-01-16 Thread will
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

[Python-authors] Charles Stross is using reStructuredText for his next book

2010-01-16 Thread Doug Hellmann
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 (