On Wednesday, 6 March 2013 05:36:16 UTC+5:30, Timmie wrote: > > > In spite of these drawbacks I wrote a little advocacy article about > > Sphinx, because I think that Sphinx could become a really good multi > > channel publishing tool. > > > > http://www.hasecke.eu/Members/juh/sphinx-a-tool-for-self-publisher > Here's a similar article: > > http://blog.dehlia.in/2010/11/professional-book-like-structure-with-sphinx/ >
Regarding formatting: I do agree that there are some rough edges, but honestly I have struggled a lot using Word and open office for formatting. Tweaking Sphinx is still an easier choice for me. See my changes at https://bitbucket.org/poo/sphinx-eclipsebook/ Regarding other advantages like conditional inclusion of text with .. only::, etc. Sphinx clearly wins for me. Rather than achieving the same using macros in other tools, Sphinx is great utility. Sphinx/reStructuredText can also be be used to create live technical documents. (live book ==> http://hgbook.red-bean.com/. The contents of that book is generated from output of Mercurial. If the tool console output changes, book automatically gets updated. This is also a big win for technical documents.). In the long run, I definitely think that Sphinx would be de-facto choice for technical documents from broad spectrum. Regarding your question about non-technical person using Sphinx, We already working on a framework for multi-channel distribution of books on top of Sphinx, Ratatouille [1] Ratatouille is already partially functional, and there are some non-technical books already available to the end user. We hope, that with handful of example books tutoring how a book is written/organized in Sphinx, non techincal users would also switch to Sphinx. [1] Ratatouille - Anyone can write and publish. See blog announcement http://blog.dehlia.in/2013/03/ratatouille-anyone-can-write-and-publish/ -- Purnank. Co-Author of http://eclipsebook.in/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
