Re: [Docutils-develop] Re: [Docutils-checkins] docutils/spec notes.txt,1.160,1.161

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On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, David Goodger wrote:

> [David Goodger, in a CVS diff]
>  >> * The "docutils.conf" included with Docutils should become complete,
>  >>+  with examples of every setting (many/most commented out).  It's
>  >>+  currently sparse, requiring doc lookups.
>
> [Engelbert Gruber]
>  > i donot think this is feasable or useable.
>
> Perhaps; we'll see.  I'll try it out myself anyhow.
>
> In any case, the default config file should include a reference to the
> config file docs.
>
>  >>+* Rework docs/tools.txt for the new configuration sections.  Merge
>  >>+  doc/latex.txt info into tools.txt.
>  >
>  > same as above (but maybe it is just me that does not like to stumble
>  > through tons of pages) make it modules.
>
> I disagree here.  Please note, I'm not saying all of docs/latex.txt

no you dont, that is my opinion (but of course i will share it :-)

> should be merged, just the config/settings info.  All settings should
> be documented in one place.  docs/tools.txt may be getting too big, in
> which case I wouldn't be averse to splitting the config file parts out
> into a docs/config.txt file.  The LaTeX stylesheet may require
> separate documentation, but not the config file settings.  And at
> least a brief summary of rst2latex.py should be part of
> docs/tools.txt.

cheers

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