From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754719AbcHSMym (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:54:42 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:11288 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754557AbcHSMyk (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:54:40 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.28,544,1464678000"; d="scan'208";a="1044165967" From: Jani Nikula To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Jonathan Corbet Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" , Daniel Vetter , Markus Heiser Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Documentation: switch to pdflatex and fix pdf build In-Reply-To: <20160815192632.56727ab9@vento.lan> Organization: Intel Finland Oy - BIC 0357606-4 - Westendinkatu 7, 02160 Espoo References: <20160810120535.27570309@vela.lan> <20160812164046.1e90d549@lwn.net> <87lgzyv08q.fsf@intel.com> <20160815091752.747d25e4@vento.lan> <20160815192632.56727ab9@vento.lan> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.22.1+63~g648dcc7 (https://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 15:54:37 +0300 Message-ID: <87zio8syuq.fsf@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > 5) At media docs, some tables will only print ok in landscape. > > After making the media books build, I think that the best way is to > use xelatex instead of pdfdocs. Visually, xelatex output is, IMHO, > nice - and it has colors :-) > > It seems that there's yet another option: lualatex. I didn't try to > build with it. So, not sure if its output is better or not, nor if > some extra config for it is needed at conf.py. > > I sent a patch series addressing most of the issues above. I didn't see the series, but I'm surprised we now have HAVE_PDFLATEX that actually checks for 'xelatex'. The commit subject doing the change doesn't even mention xelatex, it's just about UTF-8: commit a682ec4ba10c88231cdbb8bb9823b2cc749d6364 Author: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Tue Aug 16 13:25:39 2016 -0300 docs-rst: Don't mangle with UTF-8 chars on LaTeX/PDF output BR, Jani. -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center