Re: [sphinx-dev] Re: Forewords / Preface

2010-12-09 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 21:57, Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: On 08/12/10 Lennart Regebro said: Well, for that we'd need a rst builder in Sphinx, as Sphinx has several custom commands rst2pdf doesn't understand. :-) You mean like this? extensions =

Re: [sphinx-dev] Re: Forewords / Preface

2010-12-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 09/12/10 Lennart Regebro said: Aha, indeed. This may be a better way forward in the long run, if it's possible to get near professional level typesetting out of it, which includes ligatures and stuff. Has anyone made a nice book template? I wonder if you could find one here.

Re: [sphinx-dev] Re: Forewords / Preface

2010-12-09 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:52, Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: On 09/12/10 Lennart Regebro said: Aha, indeed. This may be a better way forward in the long run, if it's possible to get near professional level typesetting out of it, which includes ligatures and stuff. Has

Re: [sphinx-dev] Re: Forewords / Preface

2010-12-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 09/12/10 Lennart Regebro said: No, just css and tex classes there. Good resource though! http://code.google.com/p/rst2pdf/source/browse/#svn/trunk/rst2pdf/styles I don't see one called book. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things

Re: [sphinx-dev] Re: Forewords / Preface

2010-12-08 Thread Reinout van Rees
On 12/07/2010 10:35 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote: So obviously you can't use book, but*must* use report. Or something. I don't know, LaTeX is a mess, and Sphinx on top of it doesn't help. Both the world of LaTeX and Sphinx support for it should be simplified. Maybe I'll work on that if I ever

Re: [sphinx-dev] Re: Forewords / Preface

2010-12-08 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:50, Reinout van Rees rein...@vanrees.org wrote: Alternative (what I did for my PhD thesis): use restructured text for as long as possible and, near the end, generate the latex stuff and continue working and tweaking with that. I'm already disappointed with the amount

Re: [sphinx-dev] Re: Forewords / Preface

2010-12-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 07/12/10 Reinout van Rees said: Alternative (what I did for my PhD thesis): use restructured text for as long as possible and, near the end, generate the latex stuff and continue working and tweaking with that. rst2pdf is also a nice alternative... But, the LaTeX output must be solid.

Re: [sphinx-dev] Re: Forewords / Preface

2010-12-08 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 19:20, Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: On 07/12/10 Reinout van Rees said: Alternative (what I did for my PhD thesis): use restructured text for as long as possible and, near the end, generate the latex stuff and continue working and tweaking with

Re: [sphinx-dev] Re: Forewords / Preface

2010-12-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 08/12/10 Lennart Regebro said: Well, for that we'd need a rst builder in Sphinx, as Sphinx has several custom commands rst2pdf doesn't understand. :-) You mean like this? extensions = ['rst2pdf.pdfbuilder'] Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can

Re: [sphinx-dev] Re: Forewords / Preface

2010-12-07 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 16:08, Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com wrote: In LaTeX. It seems so, but I thought the sphinx classes was based on the 'book' class, which should support it... Apparently there are more than one class involved here, as shown here: \def\sphinxdocclass{report}

Re: [sphinx-dev] Re: Forewords / Preface

2010-12-02 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:50, Jan Ulrich Hasecke juhase...@googlemail.com wrote: \frontmatter That gave the error undefined control sequence, weirdly enough. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sphinx-dev group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [sphinx-dev] Re: Forewords / Preface

2010-12-02 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Am 02.12.2010 um 13:47 schrieb Lennart Regebro: juhase...@googlemail.com wrote: \frontmatter That gave the error undefined control sequence, weirdly enough. In Sphinx or LaTeX? Maybo not all classes support this. :-( juh smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [sphinx-dev] Re: Forewords / Preface

2010-12-02 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 13:51, Jan Ulrich Hasecke juhase...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 02.12.2010 um 13:47 schrieb Lennart Regebro: juhase...@googlemail.com wrote: \frontmatter That gave the error undefined control sequence, weirdly enough. In Sphinx or LaTeX? Maybo not all classes support

Re: [sphinx-dev] Re: Forewords / Preface

2010-12-01 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 19:18, Meera meera.purn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Lennart, I am using Patch/diff for my Book (http://eclipsebook.in) . I have tried to explain the steps in my blog. http://blog.dehlia.in/2010/11/professional-book-like-structure-with-sphinx/ Regards, Meera OK, so

Re: [sphinx-dev] Re: Forewords / Preface

2010-12-01 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Am 01.12.2010 um 09:21 schrieb Lennart Regebro: OK, so having a .. raw:: latex \setcounter{secnumdepth}{-1} in the start and a .. raw:: latex \setcounter{secnumdepth}{2} At the end of the introduction means it won't get a chapter number, which is good enough. Thanks!

[sphinx-dev] Re: Forewords / Preface

2010-11-30 Thread Meera
Hi Lennart, I am using Patch/diff for my Book (http://eclipsebook.in) . I have tried to explain the steps in my blog. http://blog.dehlia.in/2010/11/professional-book-like-structure-with-sphinx/ Regards, Meera On Nov 30, 2:21 pm, Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com wrote: I'm doing a book with