Re: Alternatives for reST -> PDF

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Nick Moffitt wrote:

> 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.

that is a typo "LaTeX has been the king of layout in a long time."

what else groff, lout,

> 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.

the XSL-FO does this already.

> 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.

openoffice comes with python included. but i cant say oos layout is better 
than latexs.

cheers

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