[DOC-SIG] Comparing SGML DTDs

[Andrew Kuchling]

Guido van Rossum <guido@CNRI.Reston.Va.US> wrote:
>be used that can be converted to SGML (or XML for all I care).  TIM,
>which has only one magic character (@, which isn't used in Python)

	{ } are also special, aren't they?  (TIM is built on top of
Texinfo, which provides output in the form of GNU Info format and .dvi
files; there are also texi2nroff and texi2html converters.)
	
>fits the bill -- it did one or two years when I looked into it, and
>it's only because of inertia (and a lot of other things that needed to
>happen sooner) that I haven't started using it.

	Aha!  What prevented you from moving to TIM?  Just the work
required to convert everything, or are there pieces still missing?
For the record, I also really like TIM; it's simple enough to be
easily processed, but you can escape into TeX if required.  TIM, via
Texinfo, provides functions for defining class methods and the like:

@defmethod @r{hashing objects} copy ()
Return a separate copy of this hashing object.  An @code{update} to this
  copy won't affect the original object.
@end defmethod


	Andrew Kuchling
	amk@magnet.com
	http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/


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