Re: Re: No printable 7.1 docs?

Tom Lane writes:

> It seems to me that all of the other problems you enumerate are simply
> bugs in the doc toolchain. We've worked around them rather than tried
> to fix them because that was the shortest path to a result, but if Chris
> wants to tackle actually fixing them, that would sure be nice. Based on
> your comments here, my recommendation would be to forget RTF entirely;
> instead, work on getting out the kinks in the TeX pathway.

The consensus of the authors and others that know what they're saying is
essentially that jadetex can't be fixed without a complete rewrite of the
Jade TeX backend (jadetex != Jade TeX backend). And currently there's
little to no interest or manpower for sweeping changes in Jade.

The presently most future-proof free software way to use TeX for
formatting DocBook is PassiveTeX, which works through XML and XSL FO.
I've tried it once and if I'm not mistaken I got a readable PDF file part
of the time. If anyone's interested in helping with the tool chain, look
there first.

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