Yarko, I could go into a long histronic on document systems and disparate roles for each but I will pass. I'll just close with the comment that the four roles are distinct and not to be merged. Learned that at Xerox.
JohnMc On Jul 20, 10:49 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:41 PM, JohnMc <maruadventu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Yarko, > > > Understand your viewpoint as well. Documentation is a 4 part process - > > create, edit, format, distribute. reST is excellent on the last 2 > > points and bordering on sad on the first two. > > BTW - didn't mean to sound harsh, but this mis-info, topic is wearing on > me... > > From a strictly structural analysis of your argument, you seem to want to > INTEGRATE in stead of separate the 4 processes you describe (want them > coupled). For Scriptus, I've seen create/edit tool lists that are > bafflingly rich and long. Editing text is... editing text; With Scribus > you can insert a layout box, and put in it the output of LaTex (processed), > or reST. so the editing is still separate. > > It seems to me the argument you are making is one of workflow, and prefering > not to deal w/ markup languages (of any kind) if at all necessary, and I > don't know that I disagree with you.... it's just that I don't find markup > languages all that troubling (heck , used nroff and troff for years - was > the best way to self generate a book / paper, well before "Word" ... or even > Microsoft! existed). > > But I'm just toying with you - I don't mean to dismiss you, merely show the > circularness of these arguments. There's nothing wrong with Sphinx. Theres > nothing wrong with LaTex; there's nothing wrong with Scribus. All require > some learning (now, if you want to mush it all together, let's just use > open office and be done). > > Kindly, > Yarko --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
