[izpack-devel] Docutils

[Markus Schlegel]

I also think, that reST is not an improovement to HTML.

Either stay with the plain old HTML (but let it be editable by everyone in
the SVN),
or use a Wiki.

Markus

2007/5/4, Scott Plante <splante at insightsys.com>:
>
> I offer these points in favor of keeping the doc in HTML:
>   * Most of us already know HTML
>   * There are free, cross-platform WYSIWYG tools for editing HTML, such
> as NVU / Mozilla composer
>   * Even editing the HTML directly with, say, vim, you can see your
> changes immediately by hitting reload in the browser, vs. having to do a
> "compile" step, i.e. converting from reST to HTML.
>   * Like reST, it is versioned under SVN, so the doc versions match the
> app versions.
>   * For these reason, I believe the barrier for people to send
> improvements is as low or lower than reST.
>
> That being said, I don't thing reST is so bad. The reST tables seem a
> little awkward to edit, but other than that it seems fine. There are
> some  tools for converting the HTML to PDF, but I don't know how their
> output compares to that of the reST generated PDFs. That might be a
> factor in favor of reST.
>
> Scott
>
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>
>
> Julien Ponge wrote:
> > I am relaunching the discussion about that :-)
> >
> > I am in favour of moving the documentation to DocUtils
> > http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/
> > starting from IzPack 3.11.0
> >
> > I believe that the reST format that they propose is great because:
> > * it is a plain text that is easy to read by itself, and most
> > importantly, it is very intuitive
> > * it is easy to export to HTML, PDF, ...
> > * it should lower the barrier for people to send improvements
> > * we can keep it versionned under SVN, so it is better in this regard
> > than a wiki.
> >
> > I have also heard the idea of having the possibility to comment once
> > put online. We can think about it latter, but the idea is definitely a
> > good one.
> >
> > I would like to get your point of view about this, so that we can take
> > a decision. BTW I am volunteering to make the conversion to reST ;-)
> >
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