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. Every time we make releases, I worry > whether we're going to get blindsided by its bugs with hotlinks that get > split across pages, since page breaks tend to vary in position depending > on exactly whose version of the toolchain and style sheets you build with. > I've also been living in fear of the day we hit some hardwired TeX limit > that we can't increase or work around. We've had to hack around such > limits repeatedly in the past (eg commit 944b41fc0). Now, it's probably > unlikely that growth of the release notes would be enough to put us over > the top in any back branch --- but if it did happen, we'd find out about > it at a point in the release cycle where there's very little margin for > error.
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. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + As you are, so once was I. As I am, so you will be. + + Ancient Roman grave inscription +
