anyway, since I'm Scribus-ing other things, I'll go with you on that here... perhaps we can share master pages, etc. so the slew of stuff (eventually) has some "common"-ish look to it.
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com> wrote: > (and yes, on looking again, sure: reST doesn't address the 1st 2, nor does > (if I'm getting you) LaTex (by itself, nor TeX in general), troff, or any of > the wiki markups, nor XML-ish stuff.... > > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> :-) Ahh, mercy at last! ;-) >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:27 PM, JohnMc <maruadventu...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
