Re: [Docutils-users] Fwd: custom directive: publish html and latex2e differently

[David G. <go...@py...>]

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Michael Prisant
<mic...@gm...> wrote:
> Yes this is a dumb example but I think it is enough to get started. How can
> this question be made more simple or specific?

You can start by giving us a minimal but *real* example of what you
want as output. I think you're over-complicating the issue by trying
to simplify it in an unnatural way.

Unnatural, because the it's the job of the Writer classes to translate
Docutils document trees (doctrees) into their final formats. Don't try
to do the job of Writers from within your directive, that's the wrong
approach. You should be trying to write correct doctree nodes from
your code.

Apart from the differences in markup/tagging/codes, do you really need
different output from the two writers? IOW, does the content itself
(the rendered text & functionality) have to change depending on the
output format?

Don't worry about the HTML or LaTeX output, except to illustrate what
you want. Show us some real input, and some real desired output.

> PS Hoping that this can be posted to list in under 5 days!

Are you talking about your message, or the reply? If your message, it
could be that the first time you posted, you weren't a member, and
somebody (me) had to approve the post first, and I was otherwise busy.
Sometimes it takes me a while to get to list moderation.

If you're talking about the reply, well, sorry, but sometimes it takes
a while for people to carve time out of their busy lives.

--
David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>