I have no time to read through this thread now, but- why is this in
"extensions" instead of "external"?


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Edward K. Ream <[email protected]>wrote:

> I spent some time experimenting with html-formatted help commands.  I
> quickly came to the conclusion that this was a bad idea: using <pre> will
> not look good enough, and it is out of the question to hand-format docs
> twice.
>
> Instead, Leo will load docutils from leo/extensions if an initial import
> of docutils fails.  That way, newbies will see the best-possible help
> commands, without having to explicitly install docutils. I'll soon be
> upping new code with fallback imports using g.importExtension.
>
> There seems to be a problem with docutils on Windows with Python 3.x.  The
> docutils docs say that 2to3 is run "on demand", but that doesn't appear to
> be working.  Happily, it took just a few seconds to run 2to3 on the
> docutils-0.10/build folder, and a few more seconds to copy that to my
> Python 3.3 folder.  This is, iirc, the *first* time I have ever
> successfully run docutils with Python 3.x.
>
> In short, distributing a fallback copy of docutils with Leo makes sense to
> me.  It eliminates dual documentation, and should ensure that all Leo
> newbies will see good-looking docs.  The downside is that the docutils
> folder is about 2.7 meg.
>
> Your comments, please.
>
> Edward
>
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