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

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

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Ben Finney <ben...@be...> wrote:
> 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?

Yes, it can (just monkey-patch the settings object), but it shouldn't.

Don't you have a front-end app? It should do the configuration.

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