[Python-Dev] status of development documentation (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Thu Dec 22 09:31:42 CET 2005

Torsten Bronger wrote:

> [...] Are there any HTML-to-print converters that are better?

I don't understand exactly how the HTML is to be used for Python but I assume that not everything could be done via CSS, so own converters will be necessary for perfect output.

If done right, it should be possible to get a "usable" rendering from the raw HTML+microformat file, but a real online version would of course need some preprocessing (e.g basic templating and navigation fixup). Not more than you could do on the fly, or in a simple cgi script...

For publication work, you need more preprocessing, of course (but I'm not sure the typical python user cares much about the subtle differences be- tween latex and openoffice/word formatting...)

I was disappointed with its rather small semantic vocabulary.

I sometimes doubt that the rest proponents understand the phrase "semantic vocabulary". They do sound a lot like Perl proponents, though...

(and strangely enough, there seems to be an almost perfect inverse relation- ship between the ReST zealousness and the amount of text and code they have contributed to the core distribution. oh well.)

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