In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Aahz writes: >> >> My point is that docutils already exists; given the combined >> competition from LaTeX and docutils and OpenOffice, you should >> probably explain what differentiates your project and why people >> should support your project instead of (or in addition to) others. > >reStructuredText, AsciiDoc, and some others focus on source code >documentation, or on software documentation. In contrast to that, >our markup should be suitable for PhD theses, papers and the like. >Thus, it has weaker means for code snippets, RFC citation etc, but >rich syntax for bibliographic entries, index entries, math, and >floating figures.
Enh. reST is intended to be a general-purpose system. It's certainly extensible, and I've added code for index entries myself. There has been some recent activity on improving bibliographic support, and I believe some people are working on integrating MathML. >Additionally, input methods simplify using characters like δ, â, or >â. "Everyone" says to just use a Unicode editor. Long-term, I think that's what's going to happen -- you're starting your project too late for this to make much sense. >The differences to LaTeX are explained comprehensively on the >webpage, and actually LaTeX is the real competitor rather than >reStructuredText. OOo isn't a plain text format, and has no strong >semantic markup. Then you're really caught between a rock and a hard place. LaTeX is extremely well-entrenched; at the same time reST is gaining features. You would probably make much better progress on your goals by simply working on the reST project -- I doubt you can improve on reST as a markup language, and the more you try to cram in, the more you're going to look like LaTeX, anyway. OTOH, this is Open Source, and nobody's going to stop you. ;-) I just think you're also not going to get much traction. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it." --Dijkstra
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