Re: [Docutils-users] Custom Document-level Directive

[Jeffrey C. J. <doc...@ne...>]

Guenter Milde <milde <at> users.berlios.de> writes:

> How about storing the intended writer (or document flavour) in a special
> comment like it's done with Ecacs or Vim local variables (e.g. in
> docs/user/emacs.txt)?
> 
> ..
>    documenttype: draft

That's not a bad idea, thanks.  The only issue I see it it means you have to
write a regex or document node search to look for that comment each time you want
to make that decision as the rst parser will not flag it for easy retrieval.

For the time being, I'm going to continue working on the directive concept by
trying to model it after the implementation of the class directive by inserting
an empty placeholder element between the root and all of its children and see if
that works, but I recognize that there may not be much interest in a global
document type indicator and will pursue the 'global role definition concept in
another thread.

Thanks!