Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > IMO that pair of examples shows clearly that, in this application, > reST is not an improvement over LaTeX in terms of readability/ > writability of source. It's probably not worse, although I can't help > muttering "EIBTI". In particular I find the "``'...'``" construct > horribly unreadable because it makes it hard to find the Python syntax > in all the reST.
It's interesting how perceptions can differ - I find heavily marked up latex tends to blur into a huge wall of text when I try to read it because of all of the {} and \ characters everywhere. With reST, on the other hand, I find the use of the relatively 'light' backquote and colon characters to delineate the markup breaks things up sufficiently that I can easily ignore the markup in order to read what has actually been written. So in Armin's example, I found the reST version *much* easier to read. Whether that difference in perception is due simply to my relative lack of experience in using LaTeX, or to something else, I have no idea. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.boredomandlaziness.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com