[Pydotorg-redesign] Graphic redesign

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Walter Dörwald writes:
 > XIST source files, because that's the tool I'm most familiar
 > with. ;)

Ah, googling for XIST reveals some relationship between your email
address and the XIST pages.  ;-)

I won't have time to look at that over the weekend (I'll be off the
net).

 > Using XIST would open up several possibilities: Using custom
 > conversion not only for the global page structure, but inside the
 > content area as well. Several conversion modes: I can think of
 > RSS and PDF. For the XIST pages themselves I'm currently implementing
 > automatic PDF generation. I've put the current state of the XIST pages
 > on http://styx.livinglogic.de/~walter/python/. If you have Mozilla
 > installed, the site navigation bar provides links to several versions
 > of the page. Or you can simply replace the .html extension with .pdf

Neat.

 > Of course we have to balance the joy of something cool with
 > the pain of migration.

I actually don't think a migration to some reasonable non-HT2HTML
technology would be painful; creating the migration script may be
another matter, but the .ht files should be easy enough to understand
programmatically, since that's what we do now.


  -Fred

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