Re: [Docutils-develop] [PATCH] Optionally disable docinfo section

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

Adam Chodorowski wrote:
> That will not work, since the point is that I want the bibliographic
> fields not display only for *some* output formats. The output files
> that are intended to be standalone (for example PDF or simple HTML)
> should contain the fields, but the files intended for tight
> integration into a website should not.
> 
> So the bibliographic information needs to be there in the input; I
> just want to disable it in some (one, actually) of the output
> formats.

It definitely sounds like a custom solution or a templating system is
called for.  I'd much rather see the beginnings of a new,
comprehensive templating system than start down the path of adding
questionable features to html4css1.py.  In any case, if that one
option *is* all you really need, you can easily derive a new writer
from html4css1.py (that's what pep_html.py does).

> I'm also tinkering with the idea to write plaintext (no, this
> isn't as silly as it would seem ;-)) and AmigaGuide writers.

Not silly at all.  Plaintext would be welcome; a *reStructuredText*
writer would be *very* welcome indeed!

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