[Python-Dev] rest2latex - was: Re: Raising objections

Fri Apr 28 17:13:50 CEST 2006

engelbert.gruber at ssg.co.at wrote:
> On 2006年4月28日, Thomas Heller wrote:
>>> Gerhard Häring wrote:
>>> Thomas Heller wrote:
>>>> [...] I'm now happy with the tool that converts the ctypes tutorial
>>>> from reST to LaTeX,
>>>> I will later (today or tomorrow) commit that into Python SVN.
>>>>>> Did you commit that already? Alternatively, can you send it to me, 
>>> please?
>>>>>> -- Gerhard
>>>> I meant the ctypes tutorial in latex format, not the tool itself.
>>>> Anyway, the tool is mkydoc.py, in combination with missing.py:
>>>> http://svn.python.org/view/external/ctypes-0.9.9.6/docs/manual/
>>>> I'm not sure it is ready for public consumption ;-).
>> from what i saw it is not, because paths are hardcoded,

Sure, but it should only require some small changes to adapt it to
other rest sources.
> but aside from 
> this it should be usable and i am willing to take it up and into 
> docutils, but this requires feedback

I must work on the docs themselves, so I currently have only two things:
- the table in the ctypes tutorial has a totally different look than the other
 tables in the docs. Compare
http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/ctypes-simple-data-types.html
 with
http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/module-struct.html
- feature request: it would be very nice if it were possible to generate links
into the index for functions and types from the rest sources.
Thomas