> Massimo "had trouble" w/ sphinx (not sure what he tried) - it's reST > with extensions (and reST is a tad less "regular" than some other > markups, so attempts at treating it the same way for wikis failed to hit > the sweet spot, but there are examples - in Pycon-tech, and moin-moin > for example).. > > The "only 2 people" Massimo pointed out isnt' - they are the only 2 he > saw give him stuff, and he made assumptions based on that. > > An open-source book, Python 3 Patterns and Idioms > (http://www.mindviewinc.com/Books/Python3Patterns/Index.php) also uses > Sphinx (and also has been frustrated w/ lack of submissions, but this is > I believe more to do with the lack of an interactive, live version for > sphinx than anything). > > "Anything goes" sounds good initially - but results are the proof; it > can generate relief (no one likes change, so learning something new, or > rather not needing to is generally received with "appreciation")... > > As Massimo will attest, as long as it's a one man show - one > contributor, one decision, then "what I want" works pretty well. > > Massimo writes in LaTex - shall we write a latex source, and post a PDF? > > As long as opionions abound, there will be "I think I'll try".... time > and actual results are the only real measure. > > I'm in the Sphinx camp (with a little off on LaTex, and definitely a > Scribus fan, as I build and bug report on the release candidates ... but > would not necessarily use either of those for this; LaTex / beemer is > what I'm trying for the time being for presentations; Scribus for > brochures and manuals). For what it's worth: I success created a converter for Lyx: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6042 Unfortunately, the patch isn't finished due to time constraints. But it's fairly easy to export Lyx (WYSIWYM) -> RST.
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