Re: [PATCH 0/5] PDF output fixes

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

On Tue,  9 Jul 2019 15:33:18 -0300
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> wrote:

> In order to be able to build all PDF books, besides the two patches I
> already sent:
> 
>     docs: pdf: add all Documentation/*/index.rst to PDF output
>     docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs
> 
> A few others are needed:
> 
> - patch 1 removes nested tables for a few files I converted, as 
>   Sphinx LaTeX builder doesn't support it;
> - Patches 2 to 4 addresses some minor issues on some books,
>   usually requiring some blank lines, extra whitespaces or some
>   tag replacement;
> - Patch 5 is required in order to be able to build the translations
>   PDF book, as it adds Asian fonts support to XeLaTeX.

So, modulo my one comment on the last patch the series seems OK, though I
don't like having to work around limitations in PDF generation this way.
Can't you just make rst2pdf work instead? :)

I guess it makes sense for these to go with the big band-aid-removal patch
set.

Thanks,

jon

P.S. it seems that rst2pdf is actually being developed again:
https://akrabat.com/rst2pdf-back-from-the-dead/ .  I wonder how far
they'll get with it.