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[Walter Bright]

On 1/22/2013 11:53 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 1/23/13 2:18 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2013-01-22 20:47, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>>> Not sure I understand. We have working templates that produce passable
>>> PDF via LaTeX.
>>
>> It's somewhat cheating to use an intermediate language like LaTeX, but
>> in the end I guess it really doesn't matter.
>
> No, it's not cheating at all. You do realize the enormous effort that would be
> involved in producing good quality typesetting?

Also, Ddoc's charter is not to generate PDF files. It is to provide enough macro 
capability that Ddoc's output could be, given the right macro definitions, fed 
into a PDF generating tool or any other reasonable document format.

The default set of macros will generate basic html.