[Docutils-develop] Re: [Docutils-checkins] r4346 - trunk/docutils/docs/dev/todo.txt (semi-humorous)

[Marcelo G H. <mar...@gm...>]

El 25/02/2006 a las 04:04, fwi...@us...
<fwi...@us...> dijo, en su mensaje "[Docutils-checkins]
r4346 - trunk/docutils/docs/dev/todo.txt":

> +* .. _GUI:
> +
> +  The user interface is very difficult to use for Windows users; you
> +  can't really expect them to use the command line.

You probably mean "the average Windows user". 90% of my computing
needs are solved using the command line interpreter, and I'm a Windows
user. I even invoke the text editor from the CLI.

Anyway, once I was able to add a context option to text files for
conversion to reST. The association simply invoked a "py2exe"d
variation of the program which took the text file and created an HTML
file of the same name in the same directory. It assumed a suitable
docutils.conf in said directory, of course. Maybe that's worth adding
to some part of the project.

On the other hand, I'm against giving a luser a powerful tool to them
to misuse, but that's a different matter :-) Anyway, if the tool is
good would be worth a try. I have a couple of fellow editors who could
benefit of it.

> +  We need some kind
> +  of GUI that can launch rst2html.py, and save the HTML output to a
> +  file, and launch a browser.

Docfactory was Ok while it worked. (And maybe on non-Windows system it
does, but it doesn't on Windows. With Python 2.4.2 and wxPython
2.6.2.1, at least.)

> +  I talked to Stephan Deibel about getting Docutils integrated into
> +  Wing IDE.  He said it's possible, and he'd be willing to help.

Nice. And completely useless for those of use which *won't* use Wing.
But hey, it's a start.

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