[Doc-SIG] what about OpenDocument?
Chad Whitacre
chad at zetaweb.com
Fri Dec 30 15:03:49 CET 2005
Dear all,
Here's a crazy idea: what would it look like to maintain the Python
documentation in OpenDocument format?
Pros
====
- robust authoring environment: OpenOffice
- drastically lower barrier to entry for authors
- custom markup == custom OOo stylesheet (!)
- open XML-based format means easy-to-write tools
- trivial PDF conversion
- powerful typesetting
- nice boost for ODF/OOo
Cons
====
- HTML version would take work; default not good enough
- harder to diff/version?
- um ..., um ...
"Hey, I'd like to write documentation for my new Python module."
"Ok, download the OOo template from python.org and go to it!"
chad
More information about the Doc-SIG
mailing list