On Thursday 26 May 2005 17:10, Skip Montanaro wrote: > I'm not convinced we actually need to change markup systems either. My > suggestion that perhaps migrating to reST was motivated by: > > * my dread (real or imagined) that trying to coax different output > from latex2html would be a big PITA
LaTeX2HTML can be a pain to extend, but it's doable, and we generally don't need to do much that isn't Python-specific. When we do, it's generally because we want to make it easier to affect the presentation in a systematic and cross-browser way (rather than rely on advanced CSS implementations). > * a perhaps invalid assumption that reST-as-input would generate more > documentation contributions based upon the occasional comment I've > seen over the years that (paraphrasing), "I can't contribute - I > don't know how to use LaTeX." That comes from people looking for excuses; most people who ask for ways to contribute don't follow up, and I'm very careful to point out that the use of LaTeX is not required. > I'm personally comfortable with LaTeX. Fred has yet to complain about my > markup errors, so if we can find other ways to address the above > problems/perceptions, I'd actually be happy to keep LaTeX. I think most of the actually limitations of LaTeX aren't that important. If we could make a few changes, it would be nice, but there isn't anything pressing that needs to be changed. There are enough things that we simply don't yet deal with. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> _______________________________________________ Doc-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/doc-sig
