James Rowe wrote:
> What should happen when users have selected styling options? Say
> a user has selected Arial 24 to use in a heading instead of using the
> semantic option and selecting headline2(or whatever your word processor
> uses) how would you cope with that during export?
Ignore it, maybe issuing a warning.
> If a user has chosen
> to make half a line green how should that be treated?
Ignore it, issue a warning.
> How should
> typeface changes be treated?
Ignore it, issue a warning.
> What happens when a word is double
> underlined in a paragraph?
Ignore it, issue a warning.
> Should non-semantic styling just be dropped on the floor during
> conversion, or would you shove stylistic attributes in to a reST comment
> so the transform could be two-way?
I would ignore it and issue warning when going from ODT->ReST. I suspect
ReST is a small subset of what an ODT can handle, so I doubt that way
would be a problem, although special consideration would likely be
needed to ReST and Sphinx specific stuff like auto-indexes, etc.
> My editor shows graphically bold, underline, headings, and such. It
> allows me to jump back and forth between link text and link definitions
> with a keystroke, etc. It tells me when I've made a reST formatting
> error, and takes me to it. That is definitely good enough for me, but
> yeah I can imagine some people would like more mouse oriented options.
Which editor do you use?
> I'd hazard a guess that many of those people who aren't satisfied with
> their current tools could be satisfied with a web based editor as has
> been discussed here before, and it wouldn't need all the hassle of
> training users not to use half the functionality of their word processor
> that can't be expressed in reST(and I'd argue thankfully so).
Training is pretty simple when the ODT->ReST script ignores what it
safely can while issuing warning and plain barfing on the rest.
> It's only XML so basically any XML tools.
"only XML" - you're a funny guy ;-)
Chris
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