Re: Re: Alternatives for reST -> PDF

El 20/05/2006 a las 15:02, Beni Cherniavsky <cben <at> users.sf.net> dijo,
en su mensaje "[Docutils-users] Re: Alternatives for reST -> PDF":

> How about Lout? I've read the design paper with fascination but I
> didn't try to actually typeset anything with it. Can anybody comment
> on its output quality?

Lout's output is PostScript (the PDF backend is officially declared
broken by its author), so you would have to use a different tool to
convert PS to PDF.

Also, the crossreferences normally require several runs, as I read is
the case for (La)TeX, until they all coalesce in a complete document.
And some references can be always in state of flux if, for example, a
figure doesn't fit completely in a page and it has to be moved to a
different page to do it.

The quality seemed pretty much ok for me.

> There is already a lot of code in  sandbox/lalo/lout_writer.py.
> What's the status?

I tried it a while ago. If nothing has changed since then, supposedly
you could create a basic document with it, but whenever I tried it I
failed to achieve a syntactically correct Lout document. I've been
thinking about doing something about that, but being a personal
sandbox I never wanted to meddle with it.

Also, I'm the biggest procrastinator ever 

Also, the only time I tried (years ago) I had a problem with the
nesting of structures required to enclose the different parts of a
Lout document and how to ascertain which document level a certain
title is in from inside the docutils machinery.

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