Re: Alternatives for reST -> PDF

G. Milde:
> > What alternatives are there? Can I render from reST to PDF via some
> > other, more reliable route, avoiding (La)TeX and all its annoyances?
> 
> If you care for best layout quality, LaTeX might still be the
> ultimative choice. 

With respect, LaTeX hasn't been the king of layout in a long time.  It
works most of the time, true, and ten years ago it was a jewel in the
Free Software crown, but it has shown its age since then.  It's pretty
warty.  I'm kind of irritated at the person who thought that simply
suggesting pdflatex or whatever would solve all of LaTeX's warts and
misfeatures.

One thing that might turn out useful would be a Scribus-writer.  Scribus
also uses an XML format, so it may even be possible to play goofy XSLT
games on the docutils internal XML format stuff.  

One drawback seems to be that Scribus currently doesn't operate
headless.  I thought it did, and just checked now, but I may have been
thinking of Inkscape (which I've used to render script-generated SVG
into PNG).  But Scribus is scriptable in python, so who knows.

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