Thanks for the kind words.

I have become quite a fan of the RST method of doing a PG donation. I can't imagine how much work it would be to do some of my recent work without it. The four volumes of the Ramayana had hundreds of footnotes apiece. The books on aviation and electronics had hundreds of illustrations. All the books had tables of contents and some had lists of figures as well. Then I'd have to proofread and correct web pages and plain text files. Not only is RST a huge labor saver, the results it produces are outstanding. For just one example, in plain text files footnotes use superscript characters.

As a bonus, converting a PG donation RST file to a printed book is amazingly quick and easy. It isn't the kind of thing you could fully automate--you need to do some fooling around with the generated TEX file to make a really good PDF--but I've gotten to the point where I can do a decent conversion in a couple of afternoons. I could write an article on how to do it for the PG site if there was interest.

James Simmons