Re: reStructuredText module

[Philipp Gesang <philipp.gesang@alumni.uni-heidelberg.de>]

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···<date: 2013-03-12, Tuesday>···<from: Aditya Mahajan>···

> On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> 
> >···<date: 2013-03-12, Tuesday>···<from: Aditya Mahajan>···
> >
> >>On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> >>
> >>A better way to handle this is to provide macros \startRSTcontainer
> >>... \stopRSTcontainer and translate the above to
> >
> >I considered adding a generator \defineRSTcontainer with the
> >usual interface (e.g. [command=\framed,frame=on]). This won’t
> >work because the output is supposed to be a self-contained
> >document. The goal is for the output to consist of ordinary
> >Context macros only so it can be imported without loading further
> >code. (I’m undecided regarding the requirement of the “\RST...”
> >prefix, though.)
> 
> Personally, I think that it is reasonable to expect the users to
> import a module.
> 
> >Honestly, I have no idea. Depending on the style sheet a div can
> >be a float or aligned or have a shaded background. The current
> >approach leaves the implementation to the user.
> 
> Another option is to change the generated output to
> 
>     \start[xyzzy]
>     ....
>     \stop
> 
> When the environment xyzzy exists, this is (supposed to be, see
> below) equivalent to
> 
>     \startxyzzy
>     ....
>     \stopxyzzy
> 
> otherwise, this is equivalent to
> 
>     \bgroup
>     ....
>     \egroup

Now that it’s fixed: Thanks for the pointer. I’ve been using
\start...\stop as a synonym for grouping for ages but never
realized it could take an argument.

Philipp


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