On Tuesday 07 March 2006 01:41, Paul Dumais wrote:
I have familiarized myself with docbook and am gung ho. I am fairly
new to zope3, so I will not be much help with content. I will be good
at trying out things and keeping the document up to date.
Using docbook is probably okay for most
Hi all, here is a callout for input on creating a zope livebook.
I have familiarized myself with docbook and am gung ho. I am fairly
new to zope3, so I will not be much help with content. I will be good
at trying out things and keeping the document up to date.
I decided to go with darcs for now,
Fred Drake wrote:
On 2/16/06, Chris Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Indeed, but I'm guessing there's maybe a script that can be run to turn
OpenDocument into DocBook and vice versa?
The DocBook -- OpenDocument conversion is lossy, so there's no round trip.
:-(
Oh well, not too attached to
On 2/17/06, Chris Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh well, not too attached to DocBook then...
Though I'm LaTeX-friendly, I'd certainly rather DocBook over
OpenDocument. Not only are there better toold for working with it,
but the markup offered is more interesting for the subject domain.
Fred Drake wrote:
I've worked a bit with generating OpenDocument documents for use with
OpenOffice, and have no expectation that the document will be edited
in a way that a plain-text user will be happy with. Since the files
are ZIP files that contain XML, it's not like supporting plain text
Reinoud van Leeuwen wrote:
I also think that pure Latex would be the best choice. It's convertible into
a
lot different formats and can be edited just using a simple text editor.
Isn't Docbook a better choice? Is is specially designed for documents like
this, and easily parsable. lots of
Fred Drake wrote:
So with that in mind, if you do not know how to do professional desktop
publishing, then LaTeX is a much better options, since it results look really
professional.
We also have lots of cool support for Python documentation in LaTeX,
which makes it really easy to work with
On 2/15/06, Philipp von Weitershausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've never tried using OpenOffice and I'm not sure whether
its changes would actually leave existing whitespace intact (this would
be crucial for decent diffs).
I've worked a bit with generating OpenDocument documents for use with
