[Zope3-dev] Offer to Help Write User Documentation/Tutorials

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 07:37, Steve Alexander wrote:
> Gary Poster wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jim Fulton" <jim@zope.com>
> >
> >>Even better would be to write a tool using ReportLabs pdf generation
> >>software to generate a PDF from the Wiki. This would be a cool fun
> >>project that would be a really useful addition to ZWiki. I think
> >>Andy McKay has a tool that generates input to ReportLabs software
> >>from structured text.
> >
> > OK; what the heck.  You're right.  Might be fun.  I'll give it a try this
> > week/weekend and see what I come up with.  (I don't know ReportLabs but
> > hey...)
>
> I have some stx -> reportlab code. Let me know if you want it. I'll need
> to work out where in my CVS repository I left it ;-)

Ever-so-slightly-off-topic:

Ooh - the dps (http://docstring.sf.net/) project would *love* to hear about 
this! I've dabbled in STX->PDF before, but found the reportlabs PDF 
formatting facilities to be minimalist and didn't have the time to write all 
the formatting required. The ReST format that the docstring project uses is 
translated to a DOM structure that should be a doddle to then translate into 
reportlabs input. I've already done a writer that turns basic ReST into PDF 
slides using pythonpoint. We've switched over the documentation for roundup 
(http://roundup.sf.net/) to use in with great results already. Oh, for PDF 
output too! :)

On a much-more-on-topic-note:

dps/ReST rules, BTW. Has anyone done any work in getting it into Zope3 yet 
(my Zope3-fu is seriously lacking, still, and I'd be happy to do the work 
once I have the requisite knowledge...)?



    Richard