| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: documentation is now XML |
| Date: | 2018-01-24 03:24:53 |
| Message-ID: | 20180124032453.GF17109@momjian.us |
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:22:53PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > 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.
>
> > 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.
>
> I like TeX as much as the next guy --- I wrote my thesis with it,
> a long time ago --- but there's no denying that (a) it's got hard
> limits we're approaching, (b) the downstream conversion to PDF is
> buggy, and (c) nobody is working on fixing it.
All agreed, but what alternatives are being developed?
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