From: Laura C. <la...@st...> - 2004-04-21 16:25:49
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In a message of Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:18:33 EDT, David Abrahams writes: >Yeah, I was just thinking that if I send the .rst files of my book to >the publisher, trying to explain which are the comments that they >should avoid putting in the published document is fraught with peril. > >That said, I'd hate to make a radical syntax change at this point and >break all the ReST out there. > >-- >Dave Abrahams I believe that your problem, here, is more that you need to communicate 'comment' == 'do not print' to your publisher, and this is a hard thing for them because they think it is a _confusing_ piece of 'operator overloading' like 'language overloading'. So you would be better off with the ability to define your own directives, and make a do_not_print one. Whether you use one colon or two, seems the wrong issue. Laura |