[Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue May 22 15:59:25 CEST 2007

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

IMO that pair of examples shows clearly that, in this application, reST is not an improvement over LaTeX in terms of readability/ writability of source. It's probably not worse, although I can't help muttering "EIBTI". In particular I find the "'...'" construct horribly unreadable because it makes it hard to find the Python syntax in all the reST.

It's interesting how perceptions can differ - I find heavily marked up latex tends to blur into a huge wall of text when I try to read it because of all of the {} and \ characters everywhere. With reST, on the other hand, I find the use of the relatively 'light' backquote and colon characters to delineate the markup breaks things up sufficiently that I can easily ignore the markup in order to read what has actually been written.

So in Armin's example, I found the reST version much easier to read. Whether that difference in perception is due simply to my relative lack of experience in using LaTeX, or to something else, I have no idea.

Cheers, Nick.

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