Re: [Docutils-users] Concept index, etc.

[Josef D. <dal...@vh...>]

on Fri, 1 Oct 2004 21:22:04 -0400
Fran=E7ois Pinard <pi...@ir...> wrote:

FP> P.S. - Another tiny thing we saw is the difficulty of "including"
FP> together many files written independently, as title styles ought to be
FP> unified first prior to inclusion.  It would be easier, for us at least,
FP> if title styles were analysed "per file" instead of globally, allowing
FP> each author of a chapter (say), to work with the greatest possible
FP> freedom.  This would have to imply, of course, that each included
FP> file should be kind of self-contained, structurally, with no awkward
FP> assymetrical stretches of structures between included parts.

I'm getting around this problem by using Leo as editor and generate rst (or=
 HTML, Latex) from the Leo source. Since Leo naturally supports hierarchy, =
there is no need for heading styles: they are generated when producing an d=
erived rst file. Inserting a document as a chapter or subchapter becomes as=
 easy as cutting and pasting one node from one document to another.

Unfortunately there is no rst -> Leo translator yet, and I am afraid I do n=
ot have the time to write one, although this would not be difficult as a Le=
o plugin.
Note also: this "natural" hierarchy thing is available with Leo's rst plugi=
n - the rst2 plugin works differently.

- Josef