[Docutils-develop] LaTeX writer, again

[Julien T. L. <me...@fr...>]

Hi list,

My version of the LaTeX writer is almost finished; It'll be posted to a
sandbox (mine, Engelbert's or a fresh new latex-writer sandbox) as soon as
it produces 'acceptable' output.

There's an issue with tables, though:
- LaTeX can't handle at all cells that span multiple columns *and* rows;
- LaTeX can only handle with great difficulty cells that contain 'body
  elements', or more generally, more than a few words with inline markup.

If anyone has ideas about this, please tell me.
Otherwise, the LaTeX writer will stay without complex table support for now.

An example of how good the writer currently is is available at
http://www.mezis.net/docutils/test.pdf -- as good as it gets.

Oh, and by the way, forget about what I said about footnotes that couldn't be
split info references and definitions, like in ReST. In fact they can, even in
base LaTeX (using \footnotemark[num] and \footnotetext[num]{text}).

.. troll::
	Hopefully, my girlfriend is a good TeXnician and pointed this out...
	...she could probably be called a geek-ette as well ;P

Bonus track:
- can someone tell me if I can change the default output-encoding (which
  currently is UTF-8) to ISO-Latin-1 (a.k.a ``latin-1``) for the LaTeX writer?
  I want to do this because base (pdf)LaTeX can only handle 1-byte encodings
  (AFAIK)...
- do you think it is sensible to add a ``stylesheet`` option for the LaTeX
  writer (implemented with e.g. ``\include{style.tex}``)

Cheers,
-- 
Julien T. Letessier     email: co...@me...
ENSIMAG Student         web: http://www.mezis.net