[Zope-dev] Proposed Additional reStructuredText Deliverables

[Jeffrey P Shell]

With Andreas plugging away at reStructuredText Integration into Zope, 
I'm thinking of some extra deliverables.  I'm not sure how deep we want 
to put ReST support in at the moment, considering that while the spec 
is pretty solid the codebase is still a moving target, but I would like 
to add and help work on the following proposed deliverables to the 
project:

1. reStructuredText support in the Zope Help System.
2. reStructuredText support for Product README handling.
3. Ensuring that Page Templates and Python Scripts can access the
    reStructuredText.HTML() function.

#1 looks like it would require adding a ReSTHelpTopic class in the 
HelpSys package which could probably mimic (or even sublass) the 
HelpSys.HelpTopic.STXTopic class.  Then support would have to be added 
into ``ProductContext.registerHelp()`` to map certain file suffixes to 
the ReSTHelpTopic ('.rst', etc).

#2 could probably be handled the same way (look for a 'README.rst' 
file), but may be served better if the contents of the README.txt could 
be introspected enough to detect format.  :\

#3 is easy, I just want to make sure it's not forgotten.  We just have 
to decide the right one way to do it: expose it in 
'Products.PythonScripts.standard' where all of the other DTML 
formatters are exposed, or out of its own namespace (ie: 
tal:content="structure python:modules['reStructuredText'].HTML(foo)").  
Or both ways.

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Jeffrey P Shell
jeffrey@cuemedia.com