Re: [HT2HTML-devel] ht2html with docutils

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

Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> Is the goal to have the content portion of .ht files be reST, or to
> allow HT2HTML to start with reST content to begin with?

What's the distinction?

Actually, the Docutils component that Oliver wrote produces ordinary .ht
intermediate files: RFC822 headers plus regular HTML.  It's an ht2html
"Writer".  The way it's written now, one would have to run Docutils and then
ht2html.  It would almost require a Makefile.  Not ideal.

But it should be easy to make an ht2html "Reader" (Docutils code calls
ht2html) or a generator module for ht2html (which would call Docutils code).
One of these days I'd like to actually *use* ht2html, and dig through the
code; then I'll have a better idea of which side should be "in control".

> I'm sure either could be done, but using .ht files with reST for the
> body would be the easier of the two.

Yes, they would look *exactly* like reStructuredText PEP source files.

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