Anybody working on docutils (ReStructuredText) stuff?
Howdy, I notice that the 0.1 version of docutils (http://docutils.sourceforge.net) has been recently released. Tried it, and it seems to do a pretty good job of rendering documents, even at this early version number. Anybody currently working on using this somewhere in Zope? I've been experimenting with backtalk recently, and although the backtalk part is great, the structured text part just does not do a good enough job for any serious document publishing IMO (see http://docutils.sourceforge.net/spec/rst/problems.html for a much better descriptions of the problems with STX than I could ever give). I had a look at the sources of backtalk and docutils (I was already somewhat familiar with the STX code), and the interfaces seem different enough that a replacement of STX with docutils in backtalk seems nontrivial (to me anyway). I guess that a simple docutilsDocument product should be relatively straightforward though. At this point I will probably still try to use the current version of backtalk to do what I want, but it requires a lot of work on the original docs to make them come out bearably OK looking. However, If someone reveals that they're working on that stuff and may have something out shortly, I might work on something else instead for a while in the hope of using a docutils version later on. BTW, thanks to Chris McDonough and other contributors for the current version of backtalk, and to Richard Jones for pointing me to ReStructuredText(now wrapped inside docutils), as I was working on improving structured text myself at the time, clearly a futile effort given the depth of thought that went into ReStructuredText. Cheers, Jean
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