[Docutils-develop] emphasis/strong within literal_block?

[Bill B. <bb...@co...>]

I have successfully modified aahz's OOwriter to produce HTML compliant 
with O'Reilly's article spec.  The end result is a writer that-- while 
not yet feature complete-- produces a minimal, non-CSS, HTML 
representation of REST input.  In my opinion, it also provides a 
relatively straightforward example of how to create a writer.

If anyone is interested, ping me and I'll forward along a copy of what 
I have now.  Impatience, Laziness and Hubris are the motivating 
factors-- i.e. it'll likely not spew a correct document for your source 
because of unknown blocks-- but, given that its focus is on minimalism, 
it should be easy to fix.

(I'd be happy to maintain a sandbox directory, if warranted)

Questions:

(1) what about support for <code></code> blocks.  O'Reilly likes 'em in 
about as much as they like <pre>.  I haven't thought through why I 
would like one over the other, but it would be nice [in my imagination] 
to generate both.

(2) within <pre></pre> blocks, things like <i></i> and <b></b> work 
fine.   How hard would it be to modify the existing literal block to 
allow for additional markup via said formatting tags (or am I barking 
up the wrong tree, here)?   In my case, I want to be show a sample 
session with the Python interpreter and I want to format the output of 
the interpreter (or the input, can't decide which yet) with slightly 
different-- italics, bold, etc...

I haven't though this stuff through outside of generating HTML for 
O'Reilly.  That is, generating output for other targets may change the 
requirements/thinking????

(Cool stuff -- the raw article is totally easy to read/edit and the 
HTML markup is perfect!)

b.bum