Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Documentation: switch to pdflatex and fix pdf build

[Jani Nikula]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Aug 16 13:25:39 2016 -0300

    docs-rst: Don't mangle with UTF-8 chars on LaTeX/PDF output

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BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center