I have today announced the availability of a revised RST plugin that does most of the proposed functionality discussed here and announced in this Blog last Thursday. This is my first chance to give something nack to the open source community! It’s purely selfish of course! I need this functionality and I’ve just scratched my own itch!
Posted today to the Leo Developer’s forum. Context I have used the RST2 plugin for a couple of days translating a lab sheet for a programming exercise and think I have gotten a feel for how it works, and perhaps how it should work. Tracking back through the forums it seems clear that the original rst plugin (developed by Josef Dalcolmo) was intended only to produce reST documents. All the nodes of an @rst tree would become an reST document with the headlines becoming different levels of heading....
Warp is a new literate programming tool created by Harold Thimbleby of UCL to help accurately write about programs. The approach is described more fully in Explaining code for publication. The idea, in a nutshell, is to mark-up source code with commented XML tags so that code can then be extracted by the warp tool into a file that can be included in a word document or LaTeX file or even (using JavaScript) an HTML file....
Quickstart to installing and using Docutils.
Online, and seemingly publicly accessible, course on Java (for people with prior programming experience) with some very rich multimedia resources including streaming videos of lectures.