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

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Tue May 22 03:43:07 CEST 2007

On 5/21/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> I think the people who have responded to my comment read too much into it. > Nowhere do I think I asked Georg to write an equation typesetter to include > in the Python documentation toolchain. I asked that math capability be > considered. I have no idea what tools he used to build his new > documentation set. I only briefly glanced at a couple of the output pages. > I think what he has done is marvelous. However, I don't think the door > should be shut on equation display. Is there a route to it based on the > tools Georg is using?

I don't think anything in the world can replace TeX for math typesetting. So if math typesetting was a requirement (which it should not be, for that very reason), then we could not consider anything but TeX.

You can use docutils to generate LaTeX output from reST, and you can put raw LaTeX into the output with ".. raw:: latex". I would imagine this is sufficient for now.

-bob

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