Re: [Docutils-develop] Re: Writer for .ht (HTML Template?) files

[Oliver R. <ol...@ru...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Goodger" <go...@us...>
To: "Oliver Rutherfurd" <ol...@ru...>
Cc: <doc...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 12:30 AM
Subject: [Docutils-develop] Re: Writer for .ht (HTML Template?) files

> Oliver Rutherfurd wrote:
> > I've written a Writer for .ht (HTML Template?) files used by ht2html_.
>
> Cool!  I've been thinking of doing something like that for a while.  One
> reason being that the Docutils home page is too long and boring, and could
> use some sprucing up.
>
> > As this is kind of a specialized writer, I didn't know whether you or
anyone
> > would have any interest in it for Docutils, so I figured I'd check and
see.
> > If you don't want it for Docutils proper, I can just plunk it into the
> > sandbox.
>
> I am definitely interested.

Ok, great.

> We'll have to think about where the best place should be (opinions?).
> If we can get the code really bulletproof (could be already; I haven't
> looked at it yet and may not get a chance for a couple of days), I don't
> see why it can't live in the docutils package.  I would love to see a slew
> of specialized writers in there, tempting users.

As far as the bulletproof part goes, I might have sent a broken version :-(.
When I tried it this morning I got an error.  I've fixed the break and added
stylesheet handling and will upload an updated version into the sandbox as
soon as my sf key lets me (just uploaded a key since I seem to need that
on windows).

> > On an unrelated note, what do you think of adding the front end scripts
in
> > "tools" as scripts in docutils setup.py file?
>
> Good idea.  But how would that work?  Does Distutils put scripts on the
> shell's path?  Is it cross-platform?  (Where does it put scripts on my
> ancient Mac?)

Good question, so after suggesting it I'm embarrased to say that it might
not.
I could have sworn that 'Scripts' was in my PATH, but I just checked and
it's
not. Maybe ActivePython's version does that, but Python.org's installer
doesn't?
I updated from ActivePython 2.2.1 to Python 2.2.2 and it's not in my PATH
now.

> > However, if they were installed by default, it might be more intuitive
if
> > they were named something like rest2html, rest2xml, etc...
>
> Perhaps, although I'd prefer "rst" to "rest".  Opinions?

"rst" sounds good.

-Ollie
ol...@ru...