Re: [Docutils-develop] What to do about custom directives?

[Richard J. <ric...@op...>]

On Thu, 15 May 2008, David Goodger wrote:
> Richard's question was about unknown directives, plugins, etc. 

There doesn't seem to be a simple solution... though on the train home tonight 
I looked to implement some more of ReST and I remembered field lists...

From my experience, field lists aren't used much, except perhaps at the head 
of a document to define author, date, etc. 

I think I'm going to hijack field lists to do my special stuff.

That way, something like:

:video: video_file.ogg

will render just fine in any output, and I can make it do the Right Thing in 
Bruce. And since the field can have multiple lines of content I can include 
significant amounts of information with them.

I'd have "fields" for video, style, decoration, python-interpreter, etc. And 
yet they'll all render ... reasonably ... in other writers.

Thoughts?


    Richard