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This is a fantastic tool for anyone working on the...

Doug Napoleone · 2007-10-24T02:10:00

This is a fantastic tool for anyone working on their 2008 Talk Proposal.

The primary part of the proposal is a REST document which is edited online. The online editor (like most wiki style editors) requires you to continually hit a 'preview' button to see your changes/progress. Using this tool you can easily develop your proposal in a natural way before submission.

You can practice with one of the example proposal like this one.

NOTE: you can edit your proposal after submission as well.

The main PyCon site is a ReStructuredText Wiki (which requires login permissions for editing). This tool can be used for developing the core site as well.

Hi Steven,thanks for giving me some feedbacks, to ...

kib · 2007-10-24T13:39:00

Hi Steven,

thanks for giving me some feedbacks, to be true I've got very few ones only.

Doug-->
you're wrong on one point : with reStInPeace, you'll have to press a "update" button too to see your changes. The first version I made used dynamlic viewing and I had to change the implementation because it was rather slow with big docs. But I added a shortcut for this (Ctrl+R) so it's not so annoying.

There are other problems too : the CSS-like browser is only 'css-like'.
So, something like :

div h1 {
text-align : center;
}

won't work because of Qt4 handles things differently. In fact, you're forced write :

div h1 {
margin-left: 50px;
}

and specify the margin in pixels...problematic.

Here's my todo list for the next versions :

- chained snippets;
- table handling;

If you've got other ideas, please tell-me.

kib: I see you are a recent addition to the blogge...

Steve · 2007-10-24T19:16:00

kib: I see you are a recent addition to the blogger ranks - welcome! I think your program will be very useful, so congratulations on getting it into beta.

Hi Steve,just to let you know that the beta 0.8 ha...

kib · 2007-10-28T23:09:00

Hi Steve,

just to let you know that the beta 0.8 has been released tonight with some basic table support.

Hope you like it,

Kib.

I have downloaded and run the 0.8 beta on Windows,...

Steve · 2007-11-03T21:43:00

I have downloaded and run the 0.8 beta on Windows, and have briefly tested the table features, which I like (though a fixed-pitch font in the edit window helps to avoid "malformed table" messages).

A link to the reST quick reference wouldn't go amiss for those of us not as familiar with reST as we should be. It might be a good idea for new users to load that document into reSTinPeace to see how it goes!

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