Re: [Docutils-users] Section titles, with or without multiple sections in document

[Ben F. <ben...@be...>]

David Goodger <go...@py...> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Ben Finney <ben...@be...> wrote:
> > Okay, that is a setting on the Publisher (and, according to the
> > docs, normally set by configuration file or command-line).
> >
> > For the task at hand (if it matters, I am transforming a changelog
> > document to structured release data), I want all the settings to be
> > internally managed. […]
> >
> > In order to modify that setting (‘doctitle_xform’), do I need to make a
> > custom Publisher class too? Or can I have the Writer somehow override
> > it?
>
> Just pass the configuration setting to the standard Publisher or
> convenience function:
> http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/api/publisher.html#configuration

What I'd like is for any code using this custom Writer, to get that
behaviour by default (i.e. not need to even know about the
‘doctitle_xform’ option). Can the Writer take care of that option in
such a way that the client code doesn't need to know about it?

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Ben Finney