At 01:43 PM 12/21/2005 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: > But when I want to focus >on content the markup is very distracting, and even moreso when writing >about programming (where ASCII, newlines, and whitespace is the native >layout technique).
And where characters like '<' and '>' occur frequently as part of the text, especially in showing Python interactions like this: >>> print "hello world" hello world I can't imagine trying to author the above in an HTML/XML based format, whereas in reST (or even LaTeX) I can just copy and paste it from an interpreter window. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com