Re: documentation is now XML

On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 03:39:24PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Also, we're way overdue for getting out from under the creaky TeX-based
> toolchain for producing PDFs. Every time we make releases, I worry
> whether we're going to get blindsided by its bugs with hotlinks that get
> split across pages, since page breaks tend to vary in position depending
> on exactly whose version of the toolchain and style sheets you build with.
> I've also been living in fear of the day we hit some hardwired TeX limit
> that we can't increase or work around. We've had to hack around such
> limits repeatedly in the past (eg commit 944b41fc0). Now, it's probably
> unlikely that growth of the release notes would be enough to put us over
> the top in any back branch --- but if it did happen, we'd find out about
> it at a point in the release cycle where there's very little margin for
> error.

I am coming in late here, but I am not aware of any open source
professional typesetting software that has output quality as good as
TeX.

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