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 locales as puncuation characters). - the behaviour of STX is not very well defined (what are allowed letters, what are allowed punctuation characters...) With the upcoming importance of reStructuredText (PEP 12) there is a real need for a better StructuredText implementation for Zope. reStructuredText solves these problems by using a reasonable specification and by avoiding ambiguities. RIchard Jones also implemented a first version of a reStructuredDocument product. I would be fine to have reStructuredText inside the Zope core (for 2.7) and to deprecate the current StructuredText in the long run. Open points: how to migrate exisiting STX documents to reStructuredText Cheers, Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------- - Andreas Jung http://www.andreas-jung.com - - EMail: andreas at andreas-jung.com - - "Life is too short to (re)write parsers" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------