Re: [Docutils-develop] LaTeX writer, again

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On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Julien T. Letessier wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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}``)
should go into docutils.conf IMHO

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