Re: help file formats (was: Re: [Pyobjc-dev] problem accessing outlet)

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

I've used StructuredText for the small bits of documentation that I've=20=

written upto now. This is more or less plain text and there are tool=20
available (on the 'net) to convert this to other formats.

Using ST was an arbitrary choice, although I'm charmed by the fact that=20=

the documents look so much like plain text and can easily be read from=20=

a text editor.

Ronald

On Wednesday, Oct 30, 2002, at 09:53 Europe/Amsterdam, S=E9bastien =
Pierre=20
wrote:

>
> Le mardi, 29 oct 2002, =E0 23:42 Europe/Paris, Steven D. Arnold a =
=E9crit :
>
>> That makes a lot of sense.  It almost sounds like I should use a=20
>> version of
>> XML with some tool that can convert to HTML, text, or other formats. =20=

>> I
>> could then hack the script you mentioned so that the same XML source=20=

>> could
>> be converted to Apple Help format.
>>
>> I'll do a search for such tools; if anyone knows of such a tool,=20
>> please send
>> me a link.  In the absence of such a tool, I'll go ahead with HTML=20
>> for now,
>> and keep my eyes open.
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm actually writing such a tool: it's called "SimTex", it allows to=20=

> write a document in simply formatted text, which is then converted to=20=

> an XML document. This XML document conforms to the "Orchid=E9eNoire" =
XML=20
> application (also by me), which comes with a processing chain that=20
> allows to convert the input XML file to various formats including=20
> HTML, plain text, PS and PDF. It is rather easy to implement a new=20
> backend.
>
> You can have a look at <http://projects.type-z.org>. Documentation is=20=

> included into the source distros, under the Documentation folder.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>  -- S=E9bastien
>
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