The good thing about laTeX is that out of all the candidates it is the most likely one to still work 40 years from now,
Doaitse > Op 9 sep. 2017, om 15:40 heeft Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvrie...@gmail.com> > het volgende geschreven: > > Hello *, > > On 2017-09-08 at 00:46:52 +0200, Mario Blazevic wrote: > > [...] > >>> If the report was written in reStructuredText we could simply use >>> something like the readthedocs.org service. But since it's LaTeX, we >>> have to do a little bit more work to publishes ("deploys" in newspeak) >>> .pdf drafts somewhere else, but it's doable. >>> >>> I can take care to set it up, if it's clear what kind of CI/CD we want. > >> Is the current publishing system really that difficult? > > No, it's not that bad, it's just that there likely won't be a service > that'll work out of the box with GitHub integration like readthedocs... > >> To my grizzled ears, this sounds like you're fishing for a volunteer >> to translate LaTeX to ReST. I'd actually be willing to do that, as I >> have plenty of experience with text transformations, but I'd need a >> buy-in from everybody. > > ...but I wouldn't go as far as to suggest this is reason enough to > translate the report into .rst > > I guess I was rather trying to fish for some commitment that we want in > fact to stay with LaTeX; I was planning to pick up where I left things > in 2015 and clean up/refactor the TeX text and also investigate what our > current options are to generate state-of-the-art .pdf, .html and .epub > output. And I'd like to avoid this resulting a waste of effort in case > we decide to move away from LaTeX in the foreseeable future... > > Long story short, is everyone ok to stay with (La)TeX, or is there some > compelling reason that would justify migrating to a different > documentation system? > > -- hvr > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-prime mailing list > Haskell-prime@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime