Re: ISBN URL?

David Goodger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.docutils.user
Message-ID <CABiJP=JBsSMTV3Neuy+cn93eZZ41rkvLMvGSwO9opy27BVcsLA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:37 AM, Matěj Cepl <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2017-05-10, 21:03 GMT, David Goodger wrote:
>> In my inbox I noticed that this went without any replies. Better
>> (very) late than never!?
>
> I have made it into https://gitlab.com/mcepl/docutils/issues/1
> on my repo and I will take a look one day (of course, merge
> requests are welcome).
>
>> Choosing one syntax option arbitrarily, for example, an ISBN
>> role could be implemented that takes this reST::
>>
>>     :ISBN:`The Four Loves <0156329301>`
>>
>> and results in HTML like::
>>
>>     <a href="https://en.w…ces?isbn=0156329301">The
>> Four Loves</a>
>
> I think this is the one I would implement. Showing plain ISBN
> numbers in the text is a bad idea IMHO and should be made
> difficult.

I disagree. I can envisage cases where one might want to write something like,

    See `The Four Loves` by C. S. Lewis (:ISBN:`0156329301`).

Note: the result would *not* be just a plain ISBN number, but "ISBN" +
the number, in a link.

Flexibility is a good thing.

> And perhaps the URL should be made configurable so we
> and our users are not forever dependent on the English
> Wikipedia.

Sure.

David Goodger
<http://python.net/~goodger>

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