Re: [Docutils-develop] Figure references

[David G. <go...@us...>]

Aahz wrote:
> To repeat what I've said above differently, one concern I've had in
> reading through the reST docs is the extent to which references,
> particularly external references, are often equated with hyperlinks.
> That's simply not particularly applicable to my domain.

And to paraphrase what I've said before, that's simply because the only
well-developed Writer so far is for HTML.  Writers for OpenOffice XML or RTF
will present their own challenges.  I'm not concerned at all.  I'm sure such
a Writer will influence the Docutils document tree structure and system
internals, and I welcome that influence -- I'm sure it will improve the
system.  Don't blame the tool for not being able to do a job it wasn't
designed to do; instead, let's improve the tool so it *can* do the job,
naturally.

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