So, after slogging long and hard through the wee hours of the night, ReSTedit now supports non-contiguous selection and columnar selection. Simply cmd-drag to extend the selection in a non-contiguous manner and option-drag to make a columnar selection. It was really really hard to do. Yup. That is all a pack of lies outside of [...]
A friend asked me what he should install onto his Mac OS X system to most effectively learn Python. This particular person is a very experienced Objective-C and Java developer, with loads of Mac OS X specific adventures. This post is targeted to that kind of developer. Mac OS X ships with a perfectly usable [...]
Ian Bicking submitted some new CSS for ReSTedit. It can be found in the subversion repository and I have built a one-off binary of the app that includes it in the app wrapper. I re-rendered both the Primer and ReST Specification with the new CSS. Click through for a view of how it looks. Thank [...]
As a followup to my previous post, two folks have volunteered to take a crack at producing better CSS for use within ReSTedit and docutils. That would be a supremely welcome contribution. I have rendered both A ReStructuredText Primer and reStructuredText Markup Specification. Each document embeds the default CSS included with docutils. The ReSTedit README [...]
Stain seemed to be rather focused on trying to be as negative as possible in his reaction to ReSTedit. I like the idea, but the result is useless. The “Render” button is slow, Auto Update isn’t Auto, and for some reason the rendered text is fucked up with characters being way to high. See http://soiland.no/screenshots/restedit.png/view [...]
Dale Gillard pontificated in the original ReSTedit 0.50 release posting about wanting an application like ReSTedit that supports Gruber’s MarkDown. As it turns out, it was trivial to add support for such to ReSTedit and doing so lays the foundation for different kinds of docutils output– HTML without CSS, PDF, etc..– that has been on [...]
A build of ReSTedit 0.50 is available on my .mac file download page. It should “just work” on any Mac OS X 10.3 system as it includes both the pyobjc and docutils libraries within the app wrapper. Beyond a handful of bug fixes, ReSTedit includes new features described in this post. The README and ToDo [...]
Over vacation, I have recreationally hacked upon ReSTedit. In particular, I wanted to add two features that have been on the todo list since the project’s inception. First, the toolbar has always had a segmented control that indicates whether both the source and rendered views were visible or which one was visible in the case [...]
The PyObjC CVS repository has had a series of significant commits over the past few weeks. If you are using or considering PyObjC on Panther, I would highly recommend working with the latest from CVS. PyObjC has an extensive set of unit tests and a development team that is very good about running the tests [...]
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 [...]