[PYTHON DOC-SIG] Bill Janssen suggested...

[Bill Janssen]

As a new member of the documentation SIG, let me point out that it's
Bill Janssen, not `Bill Janseen', as the web page says.  You can find a
write-up on what I suggested (it's called TIM) at
ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/20/20a8-manual-html/manual_17.html#SEC27
5 (which, by the way, is written in TIM).

The basic idea is simple.  Let's take a reasonable markup source
language which has lots of tools to translate it into other formats, and
add a layer on top to support domain-specific markup.  We picked GNU
texinfo as a decent source form, from which text, HTML, Info, and
Postscript could be produced.  We then added a preprocessor layer to
translate domain-specific terms such as `@isl' (used to mark an ILU ISL
literal), to the domain-independent terms used by texinfo; for example,
`@isl' is translated to `@code'.  The preprocessor also drives the
transformation from texinfo to the desired output format, thereby
freeing the user from having to remember how to run TeX, etc.  Finally,
two domain-independent features are provided by TIM, and implemented in
the preprocessor.  They are the ability to include pictures in texinfo,
and the ability to add URL links.

Bill

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