Un-deprecate built-in PDF/LaTeX output #1493
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At some point the idea was that we'll relegate the LaTeX output to a separate package to reduce the maintenance burden. However, for a while now, I've felt that we want to give the PDF/LaTeX output similar importance as to the HTML backend.
So in order to avoid having to bump
[compat]
in yet another package, this effectively deprecates the DocumenterLaTeX. In the future, people need to setformat = Documenter.LaTeX(...)
to compile PDFs.Technically non-breaking, but breaking in practice:
Documenter.Writers.LaTeXWriter.LaTeX()
directly will technically keep working, but they should update toDocumenter.LaTeX()
.