Re: Can extension build own SGML document?

On 9/15/15 11:45 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> AFAICT from a quick look at its documentation, asciidoc can produce
>> either html or docbook output; so as soon as you want something other
>> than html output (in particular, PDF), you're back to relying on the
>> exact same creaky docbook toolchain we use now.  Only with one extra
>> dependency in front of it.
>>
>> Personally I never look at anything but the HTML rendering, but I doubt
>> that dropping support for all other output formats would fly :-(
> 
> Just out of curiosity, really?

Man pages are in wide use, I think.

> I mean, I can't see that building a PDF of the documentation really
> has much value, and I don't know even what else we can build.  Who in
> 2015 would use a PDF instead of HTML?

PDF is actually kind of neat for searches across the whole document.