On Thu, Aug 01, 2002, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Ka-Ping Yee <python-dev@zesty.ca>: >> >> I am not against structured text processing systems in general. >> I think that something of this flavour would be a great solution >> for PEPs and docstrings, and that David has done an impressive >> job on RST. It's just that RST is much too big (for me). > > And if we're going to pay the transition costs to move to a > heavyweight markup, it ought to be DocBook, same direction GNOME and > KDE and the Linux kernel and FreeBSD and PHP are going. Well, reST can generate DocBook easily enough. The problem I see with DocBook is the creation/editing side: XML is painful. Having written one presentation in pure XML/PythonPoint and another presentation in my home-grown structured text system that then got converted to XML for processing by PythonPoint, I'm a big believer in the *concept* of reST. What remains to be seen is whether reST works well enough in the Real World [tm]. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Project Vote Smart: http://www.vote-smart.org/
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