[Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

[Georg Brandl]

Scott Dial schrieb:
> Neal Becker wrote:
>> Sounds very interesting.  I just have one concern/question.  I hope that
>> while moving away from latex, we are not precluding the ability to write
>> math as part of the documentation.  What would be my choices for add math
>> to the documentation?  Hopefully using latex, since there really isn't
>> AFAIK any other competitor for this.
>> 
> 
> Where in the current documentation is there any math notation /at all/? 
> In all my reading of it, I have not run across anything that appeared 
> like it was being used. Besides that question, is the full power of 
> LaTeX math notation really necessary here? I somehow doubt anything more 
> than simple expressions of runtime performance and container behaviors 
> are appropriate for any documentation we have.

There is exactly one instance of LaTeX math in the whole docs, it's in the
description of audioop, AFAIR, an contains a sum over square roots...

So, that's not really a concern of mine ;)

Georg

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