| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(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 03:22:53 |
| Message-ID: | 3366.1516764173@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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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.
regards, tom lane
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