Customizable Print Formats GSoC 2015

[Robert Helling]

Dirk,

> On 06.03.2015, at 15:37, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> 
> No, we will not include TeX or assume that is installed.

I did not really suggest either. I just propose to use it if it happens to be there.

> I see the technical benefit, it's completely unrealistic as print backend for a dive log app


Problem is that decent print backends are not abundant, in particular if you want them to be open source. I did some searching and there was no obvious tool.

Sure, we can render some html tables and print those. But in the rest of subsurface our standards are much higher.

Best
Robert

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