Re: documentation is now XML

On 01/23/2018 04:59 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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
>>
>> 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.

It has been ages since I have dealt with this but as I recall but moving
to XML we can use XSLT to push to PDF. The resulting product is as good
(if not better in some ways) to old fashion SGML->TEX->PDF.
Here are a couple of articles:

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/595650/Creating-PDF-documents-from-XML
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-xmlxsltpdf/index.html

JD

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