Re: documentation is now XML

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:22:53PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 03:39:24PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Also, we're way overdue for getting out from under the creaky TeX-based
> >> toolchain for producing PDFs.
> 
> > I am coming in late here, but I am not aware of any open source
> > professional typesetting software that has output quality as good as
> > TeX.
> 
> I like TeX as much as the next guy --- I wrote my thesis with it,
> a long time ago --- but there's no denying that (a) it's got hard
> limits we're approaching, (b) the downstream conversion to PDF is
> buggy, and (c) nobody is working on fixing it.

All agreed, but what alternatives are being developed?

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