[Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon May 21 23:57:45 CEST 2007


> I think the people who have responded to my comment read too much into it.
> Nowhere do I think I asked Georg to write an equation typesetter to include
> in the Python documentation toolchain.  I asked that math capability be
> considered.  I have no idea what tools he used to build his new
> documentation set.  I only briefly glanced at a couple of the output pages.
> I think what he has done is marvelous.  However, I don't think the door
> should be shut on equation display.  Is there a route to it based on the
> tools Georg is using?

I don't think anything in the world can replace TeX for math
typesetting. So if math typesetting was a requirement (which it
should not be, for that very reason), then we could not consider
anything but TeX.

Regards,
Martin


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