That probably would have been a saner way to go. However, we felt that authors would find html easier to write, and designers would find it easier to design in

That probably would have been a saner way to go. However, we felt that authors would find html easier to write, and designers would find it easier to design in. Maybe something like restructured text would have been ok to do too. Since it is a python magazine, and many python programmers would know restructured text. If we make it to another issue, we might think about using a separate toolchain.