Re: [Zope-dev] Future of StructuredText

2002-09-05 Thread Andreas Jung
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Re: [Zope-dev] Future of StructuredText

2002-09-05 Thread David Goodger
Richard Jones wrote: > [courtesy cc send to David G, so if I make any blatantly errneous statements > he can come chase me with the Big Stick :)] Thanks for being a vocal proponent! > On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 8:01 pm, Max M wrote: >> Andreas Jung wrote: >>> I would be fine to have reStructuredText ins

Re: [Zope-dev] Future of StructuredText

2002-09-05 Thread Casey Duncan
On Thursday 05 September 2002 03:45 am, Max M wrote: [snip] > > In userland indentation is actually a hard problem. > > > regards Max M http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) Indeed, most normal humans have trouble with understanding nested hierarchies. Something which we geeks often

Re: [Zope-dev] Future of StructuredText

2002-09-05 Thread Max M
Richard Jones wrote: >One of the big issues is that rest isn't optimised. I don't know what the >scope is for optimising rest, nor have I got any real benchmark numbers. The >emphasis so far has been to build it to spec. It's potentially much slower >than stx because the latter has been around

Re: [Zope-dev] Future of StructuredText

2002-09-04 Thread Richard Jones
[courtesy cc send to David G, so if I make any blatantly errneous statements he can come chase me with the Big Stick :)] On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 8:01 pm, Max M wrote: > Andreas Jung wrote: > >I would be fine to have reStructuredText inside the Zope core (for 2.7) > >and to deprecate the current Stru

Re: [Zope-dev] Future of StructuredText

2002-09-04 Thread Max M
Andreas Jung wrote: >I would be fine to have reStructuredText inside the Zope core (for 2.7) >and to deprecate the current StructuredText in the long run. > +1 >Open points: how to migrate exisiting STX documents to reStructuredText > > Wouldn't the simplest solution be: ??? Then we

[Zope-dev] Future of StructuredText

2002-09-04 Thread Andreas Jung
The exisiting implementation of StructuredText in Zope has several disadvantages: - its behaviour depends on the locale settings (letters and punctuation is taken from the locale settings). In some case the locale settings are imcomplete (characters ¡ and ¿ are not available through the