From: David G. <go...@py...> - 2004-09-05 23:16:14
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[Colin J. Williams] > I am slowly fighting my way through DocFactory, which is a great > tool as far as it goes. > > 1. It would really help if there were an index to the various docs, > as with Python.chm Patches are welcome! > 2. Tables are a real problem. How so? > There is a CSV directive which might be helpful, but I haven't > yet sorted out how to specify line breaks, as with a chunk of > Python code. The CSV-table directive is meant for copy & paste (or file inclusion) from CSV sources. It's not really meant for original data entry. > 3. It would be nice if the editor incorporated ^W for window closing > and a re based Find and Replace, so that one can Find "^" to > replace with ".. ". To comment out code. You can comment out an entire block with a single ".." and indentation: .. Put the ".." on the first line by itself, then indent everything you'd like to comment out, like this paragraph. Blank lines and further indentation is OK too. > 5. It would help table building if there were a constructor > available on the screen with DocFactory like that available with > Netscape (Mozilla). The wxPython megagrid example appears be > more capable than is needed for table specifying and filling. Good idea. Again, patches are welcome. > 6. There is an ocasional need, which I have, to enter math > expresions - something like TexAide would help, but this outputs > LaTex, I don't know how that fits with the need to produce > HTML. [http://www.mathtype.com/en/]. It involves working through > the clipboard and then removing the superfluous stuff. Many people have asked for math markup, but as yet nobody has done the work necessary for a robust solution. As Felix pointed out, question 2.14 in the FAQ summarizes this issue: <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html>. -- David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger> |