Re: background color experimentation...
David Goodger <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 8:12 AM, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings David Goodger, > > First, thanks for the response. Up here in the North Country one of our > hobbies is staying under-the-radar, and thus we live in cold, dark, > ignorance most of the time... > > In your kind response, you make some interesting points. I will respond > below. > > On Sun, 12 Feb 2017, David Goodger wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 6:53 AM, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> 1. Easy one - make the background color of your choice: >>> >>> .. raw:: html >>> >>> <body style="background-color:#E6E6FA;"> >> >> >> You don't need to use the "raw" directive for this. This can be done >> easily via a stylesheet: >> http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/howto/html-stylesheets.html >> > > Very cool. For openers, I did not know about rst2html.py - Thanks. BTW > nice style in the python code! I could learn a thing or two from you. > > That said, my use case is that I have about 100 DVDs (Source Linux Format) > that I am putting up on the web. Each DVD has a page that shows the original > front and back cover. What I wanted was that each of these pages display in > a color of the season. My idea was to put together these DVD "base pages" > using a bash script (I am a registered bashist. See http://visualbash.org > :^) and cycling through some seasonally appropriate pastel colors to help > the user differentiate between the various DVDs. > > The ".. raw" directive was wildly successful in allowing this page-by-page > transition. Could I advantage myself with the css approach? You'd have to change the CSS for each page. I'm not sure how your raw hack works, since you should end up with multiple <body> elements in your output HTML, unless you also changed the template. This might render in browsers but it's not valid HTML. > This experience has led me to the very disturbing conclusion that you could > (and maybe should) write all web pages in reStructuredText. Should I seek > professional help? No, I don't think so. :-) That's what I do as well, and what many of us do. >>> 2. Less easy one - Postprocessing the html to get the image to open in a >>> new >>> tab: >> >> >> This has been on the to-do list for a long time, but (a) it's not a >> high-frequency request (yours is the first I can recall), and (b) no >> obviously correct solution has been proposed. The to-do list has a >> proposal to emulate the MoinMoin wiki's use of "^" as a prefix for >> this purpose. >> > > Interesting bit of extended notation. I need to think if this would work... > >> If you want this for every image in all of some subset of your >> documents, you could create a custom Writer deriving from the HTML >> Writer you already use (or its Sphinx equivalent). >> > > My fix for this was to go directly to the resultant html and patch it there: > > <start code> > sphinx-build -b html ./ test ; > sed -i 's/><img/ target="_blank" ><img/g' test/index.html > <end code> That's very risky. It's adding “ target="_blank"” to any tag immediately before an <img> tag. Are you sure that they are all <a> tags, and always will be? > (Note what we bashists lack in finesse we make up with gusto... :^) Reminds me of: Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. — Jamie Zawinski The same could be said about sed & awk. > Obviously the "MoinMoin" notation would go a step towards a standard wiki > markup language, and why not extend ourselves into this maelstrom? I'm not following you, and I'm a native English speaker. Many on this list are not. Repeat in plainer language please? >>> Note sphinx is a lot of fun... >> >> >> Maybe tell the Sphinx folks that? This is Docutils/reStructuredText, >> which Sphinx does use, but they aren't the same thing :-) >> > > Gotcha. The most fun was getting the reStructuredText editor "enki" to run > under Ubuntu 16.04. I need to figure out how to communicate my zaniness to > the Sphinx community... > >> David Goodger >> <http://python.net/~goodger> >> > > Finally thanks for the Venn diagram, and I expect we should get together in > Portland to rub antennae... Are you up in Montreal? I love that city! I used to live near Montreal, now I live in a suburb of the Twin Cities of Minnesota. It's only slightly warmer here. David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Docutils-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/docutils-users Please use "Reply All" to reply to the list.