Switching users guide to ReStructuredText

Alan & Kim Zimmerman alan.zimm at gmail.com
Fri Oct 2 14:11:53 UTC 2015


But at least they are stable for the life of a release.

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Ryan Scott <ryan.gl.scott at gmail.com> wrote:

> To be honest, I'm not sure if referring to sections by numbers is a great
> idea. New subsections get spliced into the users' guide quite frequently,
> which can cause all subsequent subsections to have their numbers
> incremented. As a result, section numbers could become out-of-date rather
> quickly.
>
> Thankfully, one thing that ReStructured Text does much better than the
> previous system is make the entire page hyperlinkable. It's now incredibly
> easy to click on the symbol to the right of any section header and get a
> link to that spot.
>
> Ryan S.
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