[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Bug#872868: Bug#877023: debian-policy: No section numbers in policy.txt.gz



Hello,

On Fri, Nov 03 2017, Olly Betts wrote:

> Perhaps for now it would be better to eschew Sphinx's text output and
> actually generate policy.txt using w3m something like this:
>
> w3m policy-1.html > policy.txt
>
> That gives a text file with section numbers and the formatting seems
> no worse overall than Sphinx's output (if anything it seems better as
> you don't have to wade through the massive TOC to get to actual
> content).

This is a really nice idea.  Thank you.

I won't be able to work on this for some weeks but I could review a
patch.

-- 
Sean Whitton

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: PGP signature


Reply to: