Mike Pumphrey schrieb:
> Hi there.  I'd like to ask about customizing text output (created by using -b
> text).  This was brought up while researching line feeds that were created
> during this process which is UNIX friendly, but not Windows friendly.  I
> would like a way to customize it.  A colleague of mine created a patch to
> make the line feeds OS specific [1], but that also isn't optimal (what if I,
> on a Windows machine, wanted to create text files with UNIX line feeds?)  And
> this got me thinking that there is probably a need for customizing the text
> output via some sort of templating system.  It doesn't appear that this is
> possible.

No, currently that's true.

> In response to the question "what else would you want to customize?",
> underline character for headers is the most obvious thing that comes to mind,
> but I can foresee others wanting to do different things, and so we should
> make that possible.

I'm not sure how much else is open for customization, since plain text output
is very plain (obviously :))

> Does anyone have any thoughts?  Should I open up an improvement ticket
> somewhere?
> 
> [1]
> http://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx/issue/209/use-system-newline-character-in-text

I'll take this ticket as a reminder to do something about the newline issue at
least.

cheers,
Georg

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