Re: [Docutils-users] Two ideas for implementation

[Alli Q. <alq...@gm...>]

Hello all,

thank you for your suggestions and help. There are some really good
and interesting ideas; I'll see what I can do.

As for a "rst2rst" tool, pandoc[1] does a fairly good job at this, but
not quite: custom role definitions do not survive, the include
directive doesn't work and so on. As for *-to-rst conversions it also
does help, but obviously isn't perfect. Otherwise it is a very
respectable project and it will help me (at least in the beginning)
with the ConTeXt writer too, because it is capable of rst2context
conversion.

Still it is a good idea to have an actual rst writer, precisely to be
able to do some processing on the Doctree. I found myself looking for
one a few times. Was this [2] the branch you mentioned?

Lout is an interesting piece of software too. I don't know how useful
it really is in the presence of TeX and related systems/platforms, but
it definitely deals with many of *TeX*'s disadvantages. I just don't
have any experience with it whatsoever. But I'll keep it in mind.

Cheers,
al-Quaknaa

[1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
[2] https://bitbucket.org/mirror/docutils/changesets/tip/branch%28%22lossless-rst-writer%22%29