[DOC-SIG] Python Library Reference in new HTML form

[Fred L. Drake]

Laurence Tratt writes:
 > But Strong is generally just Bold... The concern was over font size. 
 > I tend to think of font size as something of last resort... I'm 

  Yes; the intent of my solution was to avoid dealing with the font
size at all.  ;-)

 > It is quite confusing... There's anydbm and dumbdm, but I don't think 
 > there's any others... Quite a few lib*.tex files document more than 
 > one module within them, but that doesn't seem like a problem to me, 

  The number of modules per .tex file should be entirely irrelevant,
but those which describe more than one, with the UserDict/UserList and 
anydbm/dumbdbm exceptions, still use one \section{} for each module.
That's where the problem creeps in.

 > I don't think I'd include it by default... It would be intimidating 
 > to novice users and a great deal of other users. Python does not need 
 > to be seen by the outside world to be "just another difficult to 
 > learn, technically minded language". But it could be an option if 

  Sounds good.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.
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