Re: [Docutils-develop] emphasis/strong within literal_block?

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

On Tuesday, Dec 24, 2002, at 16:10 US/Eastern, Aahz wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2002, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
>> 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.
> Cool!  I've been bad-mouthing my own code, but if someone else was able
> to use it, I'm glad I uploaded it after all.

It is far from complete, but the generic HTML writer is useful now [at 
least to me].  It can do footnotes, handles literal and parsed-literal 
blocks, table of contents, links, basic formatting stuff, text (of 
course), sections, a handful of fields, and is becoming easier and 
easier to extend.

At this point, it is a combination of Aahz's code and the original 
html4css.py writer.   Somewhere along the way, I blew up settings and 
eliminated them-- I need to get the article done someday soon!-- but 
they should be easy to restore.

Writing generic HTML has driven home exactly how painful HTML truly is. 
  Namely, there are times where <p>, <br /> and nothing at all can imply 
a paragraph and using the wrong one can lead to extra ugly whitespace.  
  That was fun to work around.

I would really like to refactor the footnote code as it is currently 
spewing a whole slew of tables as opposed to a single table.

No CSS anywhere, but the output is fairly reasonable.   Good enough for 
my purposes anyway.  As soon as I have commit rights into the sandbox, 
I'll create a bbum directory and commit the module along w/a simple 
setup.py [my sf account is bbum, btw].

I'm seriously looking forward to getting feedback on the code from 
those that actually know what they are doing because I'm largely 
pecking in the dark, at this point.

b.bum