CSS: The Torture Never Stops
Recently, I have been using ReStructuredText to write a series of documents for various purposes. It helps that I have a nice Cocoa based editor implemented in Python to which I can easily add features to support my needs.
Unfortunately, the CSS included with DocUtils does not produce documents that look like a decently formatted document.
In searching the web, I could not find anything resembling a set of CSS that would provide the basis for formatting whitepaper, reference or technical document style documents. I’m sure that if I looked closely enough at various random published papers, I could find some interesting CSS, but I really don’t want to just go and rip off someone else’s hard work.
Anyone know of a decent resource for CSS templates aimed at document formatting/publishing? Something other than the myriad of weblog templates? I don’t mind tweaking the various class declarations to fit the ReST structure, I just don’t want to start from scratch.
Speaking of hard work and weblog templates…
The current visual design of this weblog sucks. It is the generic default and it has zero character. I don’t like it, but I know that fixing it will suck many hours of my life away.
Why?
Because I know that CSS is amazingly powerful, but I don’t know how to harness that power without spending hours in a stupid text editor tweaking this, changing that, previewing the page, etc…
The various CSS editors I have tried don’t really seem to do WYSIWYG style editing. Then again, I haven’t tried any of the professional packages that claim to solve this problem.
CSS Zen Garden has a bunch of neat potential layouts. I might grab one, at some point. Yeah… right.