Re: [Docutils-users] [Docutils-develop] RinohType 0.1.1 released

[Tony N. <to...@gi...>]

Frankly, I can attest, I haven't looked into our PDF/LaTeX processing at
all in docutils yet. I know it's an area I want to get to - particularly
when it comes to rendering unicode (hanzi) characters.

I'm happy for your effort and thanks for bringing it to light here. I think
reception would be better if kept in docutils-users.

As for the license part - I don't agree, but trust your heart is in the
right place. I don't want to turn this thread into a license debate, but
feel free to message if me off-list if you want to talk about it.

Keep up the good work Brecht


On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Brecht Machiels <bre...@mo...>
wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 23:33:27 +0200, Guenter Milde <mi...@us...>
> wrote:
>
> > On 2015-04-28, Brecht Machiels wrote:
> >
> >> RinohType can render a structured text document (only reStructuredText
> >> at the moment) to a PDF based on a document template and a style sheet.
> >
> > There is a contributed PDF writer and rst2pdf.py front-end based on
> > "reportlab" for many years. It used to be in the sandbox and moved to a
> > separate host eventually...
> >
> > rst2odf + LibreOffice provides another alternative route to PDF.
>
> I know there are alternatives. What is your point?
>
> I did try to use the rst2pdf Sphinx builder a while ago. It produced a
> corrupt PDF and it seems to abandoned by the developer, so I don't think
> rst2pdf can be recommended at the moment.
>
> >> It should be able to replace the Sphinx LaTeX builder eventually.
> >
> > LaTeX comprises typesetting experience of dekades. RT may provide an
> > quick and easy alternative eventually, but replacement? I doubt it.
>
> LaTeX has many problems worth fixing. But you are free to doubt, of course.
> Luckily, the availability of RinohType does not affect the LaTeX option in
> any way, so you can just keep on using that.
>
> I don't expect you to be enthusiastic about RinohType. But if you can't
> provide any useful feedback, please refrain from replying to announcements
> like this.
>
> Brecht
>
>
>
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