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On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:55:36AM -0700, Andrew Browne wrote:
> Instead of converting all the source files to reStructedText, I
> would consider writing a different front end for Sphinx to support
> the existing CLL format.
> 
[snip]
> 
> I suspect this might be less work than converting all of the CLL
> source to reST, 

This seems a perfectly reasonable idea to me, but not one I myself
will be persuing, simply because I don't know Python.  Someone else
is welcome to try this route, though.

> and I don't think reST is a good format/syntax for this. The
> simplicity of reST is excellent for a basic document with headings
> and text - very productive, but [imo] not so good when we have so
> much metadata (cross-references, languages, phonetics, examples,
> etc.) in the markup. (Yes, you can add directives to reST to do
> more; but I still don't think the syntax scales well to
> complicated stuff.)

I agree.

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