On Sat, 13 Aug 2016, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 18:54:06 +0300 > Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> With these you should be able to get started with pdf generation. It's a >> quick transition to pdflatex, the patches are not very pretty, but the >> pdf output is. Patch 3/3 works as an example where to add your stuff >> (latex_documents in conf.py) and how. > > OK, now I have a bone to pick with you. > > I applied this, then decided to install the needed toolchain on the > Tumbleweed system I've been playing with; it wanted to install 1,727 > packages to get pdflatex. Pandoc just doesn't seem so bad anymore. Jon, I sent these to unblock Luis, and as a starting point for a discussion about rst2pdf vs. pdflatex. I didn't mean I'd want these merged as-is! I'm sorry if I didn't make myself clear. I don't mind at all if you want to drop them. As I played around, it worked for *me* better than rst2pdf. I had pdflatex already installed, so I didn't pay attention to the deps, and the numbers you quote come as a suprise. > I've applied this so we have something to play with, but it doesn't feel > like a great solution. This is the sort of installation hell that we > wanted to get away from. It makes me wonder how hard it can really be to > fix rst2pdf; I wish I could say I'll find some time to figure that out. > Sigh. I'm afraid pdf generation is not very high on my list of priorities right now. Surely I'll get back to this eventually, but not any time soon. :( BR, Jani. -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
