Re: [Docutils-users] ISBN URL?

[Matěj C. <mc...@ce...>]

On 2017-05-10, 21:03 GMT, David Goodger wrote:
> In my inbox I noticed that this went without any replies. Better
> (very) late than never!?

I have made it into https://gitlab.com/mcepl/docutils/issues/1 
on my repo and I will take a look one day (of course, merge 
requests are welcome).

> Choosing one syntax option arbitrarily, for example, an ISBN 
> role could be implemented that takes this reST::
>
>     :ISBN:`The Four Loves <0156329301>`
>
> and results in HTML like::
>
>     <a href="https://en.w…ces?isbn=0156329301">The
> Four Loves</a>

I think this is the one I would implement. Showing plain ISBN 
numbers in the text is a bad idea IMHO and should be made 
difficult. And perhaps the URL should be made configurable so we 
and our users are not forever dependent on the English 
Wikipedia.

Matěj

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