Armin Ronacher schrieb: >> That, and the ability to already parse it from Python and more easily >> convert to other formats (one of LaTeX's weaknesses), are the only >> benefits that I can see to switching away from LaTeX. I have to admit >> I'm afraid we would be moving to a lesser technology, and the driver >> for that seems to be people's reluctance to work with the more >> powerful, more complex tool. Not saying it is invalid (it's about >> people, in the end), but I still don't see what's the big problem with >> LaTeX. > The problem with latex is that it requires more knowledge thus the amount of > people that can contribute is a lot lower. It's a lot harder to generate a > searchindex, do interlinking, generate a dynamic documentation with comments > etc.
This could of course be done with LaTeX as well, but the current toolchain uses latex2html which is written and customized in Perl -- I'd never try to do anything with it. > Don't get me wrong, LaTeX is a powerful tool and I use it for every bigger > document i type. I just think it's not the best choice for documenting > scripting > languages. Who's documenting a scripting language? Georg _______________________________________________ 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
