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Seems kind of neat. But for my purposes I will still use Markdown to PDF using pandoc etc. What really upsets me... the typography still looks shit compared to
by che371291 8y ago
Seems kind of neat. But for my purposes I will still use Markdown to PDF using pandoc etc.
What really upsets me... the typography still looks shit compared to LaTeX... MS Word / LibreOffice can do better. Would rather stick with plaintext again.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoFOP is the only TeX alternative that can get close to it on basic typography in a FOSS implementation. I had a toolchain that ran ReST -> Docbook -> XSL-FOP -> PDF but the hard drive it was on bit the dust and I haven't gotten around to recreating it. Still much more pleasant than wrestling with LaTeX's rigid predetermined layouts. The result was nice and didn't have the crusty PDF LaTeX appearance.
- blattimwind 8y agoWell there are a bunch other engines out there, but it just so happens they all eat tex or something very close to it (context). Five or six years or so ago I used reportlab (in Python) to generate some PDF reports (using the flowables API); it does kinda work but layout is more complicated than in tex and output quality is several notches down. As far as appearance goes, you can make tex look like almost anything, even with fairly low effort.