Shall the Haskell Report remain in LaTeX?

[Carter Schonwald]

I personally kinda enjoy latex.  Granted that's assuming it's well written
:)

On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 2:41 PM Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvriedel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
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