Re: Readability of troff documents (Was: [Groff] Bug in gxditview)

[Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

At 02:41 p.m. 23/05/2003, Giorgos Magos wrote:
> Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote:
> > Sure! Take a close look at http://docutils.sourceforge.net/.
>
> Exciting stuff! I just had a look at it, and really liked the ReStructured
> Text concept (basically use normal typed text conventions to convey logical
> formatting, instead of special formatting codes). No mention of [gt]roff,
> though :-(

The best way to get a good feeling for the project is to download a copy of 
the CVS. There is a sandbox area where you can find among other things a 
LaTeX and an OpenOffice back-end (of all things!). I've been thinking about 
butchering the LaTeX back-end into ms first, and then into mm (or just into 
mm because it is so much flexible), but I really need to write that groff 
codec...

As far as I understand, the idea is to move most, if not all, python 
documentation to ReST instead of the bunch of unholy LaTeX macros that are 
used at present (I wouldn't touch those with a long pole, yuck!).