Hi,

Over the years and as part of my job, most of the documents I've
produced have been in difficult, esoteric, GUI-oriented, even
proprietary formats.  Over the past couple of months I've been trying
to shift significant amounts of this to plaintext -- and my eventual
tools of choice here are reST, and more recently, sphinx.

A conclusion I've come to is that reST/sphinx can potentially provide
a *complete* replacement of things like OpenOffice.org.  In other
words, I've found them to be ideal for the production non-technical
documents.  I see reST/sphinx as a friendly plaintext formatting
language providing an alternative to TeX and the like (of which I'm
not a massive fan).

Which brings me to my question: is there no interest in using tools
like sphinx in this regard, and if not, why?  It seems architecturally
odd to me that both reST and sphinx provide many things which will
only be of use to code documentation.

So a second question: would it make more sense to anyone else out
there if the sphinx "python documentation generator" was a rather
thinner set of utilities built on top of a generalized formatting
suite?
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