2009/1/3 mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com>:
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> On Jan 3, 6:44 am, "John Cremona" <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> HI,
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>> To clarify the answer to Georg's question, to you want reviewers to
>> read the output html and report on anything which looks wrong, or to
>> read the patch (where the markup used is something which would need a
>> reference to be provided).
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> In a perfect world: both, but reading the patch is IMHO more important
> than looking at the resulting documentation.

By the time I read this reply I had spent an hour reading through the
html and making a lost of the (few) bad things I saw.  I hope this
will not be wasted...the list will be posted at #4926 anyway, and I
may be able to follow it up with actually fixing the source.

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>> I am happier to do the former (say for sage,schemes.* in #4926).  But
>> I guess that we will all have to learn the new markup at some point
>> (soon) anyway.
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> Mike has some patch for the documentation that adds explanations on
> how to write the new docstrings, but as far as I can see it is not in
> trac yet. While talking to him in IRC last night he mentioned that the
> remaining non-ref manual documentation are two more tickets or so, so
> hopefully those will be up soon, too.

I read the primer at
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickstart.html
in only 5 minutes and I think that's all most of us would need.

John

>
>> John
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
> >
>

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