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      I'd like to point to LaTeX as a viable and useful output format. Among other things, this would allow people to build their own PDFs (via PDFLaTeX) that look a lot prettier than anything XSL-FO can currently do, and it would be useful for people who want to use Confluence as an authoring platform. Ideally, the macro-like nature of Confluence would make it relatively simple to concoct a mapping, e.g.:

      ...

      --> \begin

      {verbatim}...\end{verbatim}

            [CONFSERVER-2588] LaTeX export.

            Just to clarify, it is not that LaTex support itself would be a bad thing, it is a matter of weighing up where to spend our precious developer resources. This is driven by the usage patterns that we see amongst our customers and the demand for such issues as CONF-2079.

            Adnan Chowdhury [Atlassian] added a comment - Just to clarify, it is not that LaTex support itself would be a bad thing, it is a matter of weighing up where to spend our precious developer resources. This is driven by the usage patterns that we see amongst our customers and the demand for such issues as CONF-2079 .

            Thank you for the suggestion.

            Unfortunately we have no current plans to output Confluence pages in LaTeX. Our concentration in the future will be on improving our PDF and Word outputs as the majority of our users are interested in these formats.

            Adnan Chowdhury [Atlassian] added a comment - Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately we have no current plans to output Confluence pages in LaTeX. Our concentration in the future will be on improving our PDF and Word outputs as the majority of our users are interested in these formats.

            Gisli Ottarsson added a comment - - edited

            At first glance Confluence looks like a very promising tool for collaborative authoring of documentation of all sorts. Unfortunately most documentation will ultimately need to be exported to a hard-copy. Confluence offers PDF and Word (HTML actually) export. Both option fall short due to a poor support for a proper page-numbered table of contents — a must for any document exceeding 10 pages.

            The direct PDF option seems to be quite hopeless in this regard. It seems unrealistic to expect the PDF export to add section numbering, page numbers and a table of contents.

            The Microsoft Word export does not seem as far fetched when coupled with a style template but my experience with Word is that it would need a considerable manual intervention for things like page breaks.

            LaTeX export seems to be the ideal solution and I am hard-pressed to see what obstacles might arise. TOC should be easy enough, as would section numbers. LaTeX is likely to do a great job paginating. LaTeX would obviously be given direct access to any LaTeX markup in the Confluence source. International characters should be a cinch.

            Please implement LaTeX export.

            Gisli Ottarsson added a comment - - edited At first glance Confluence looks like a very promising tool for collaborative authoring of documentation of all sorts. Unfortunately most documentation will ultimately need to be exported to a hard-copy. Confluence offers PDF and Word (HTML actually) export. Both option fall short due to a poor support for a proper page-numbered table of contents — a must for any document exceeding 10 pages. The direct PDF option seems to be quite hopeless in this regard. It seems unrealistic to expect the PDF export to add section numbering, page numbers and a table of contents. The Microsoft Word export does not seem as far fetched when coupled with a style template but my experience with Word is that it would need a considerable manual intervention for things like page breaks. LaTeX export seems to be the ideal solution and I am hard-pressed to see what obstacles might arise. TOC should be easy enough, as would section numbers. LaTeX is likely to do a great job paginating. LaTeX would obviously be given direct access to any LaTeX markup in the Confluence source. International characters should be a cinch. Please implement LaTeX export.

            I would also second exporting of confluence pages (together with its children) into LaTex would solve many issues. Please add it and we researchers will absolutely love you.

            A. Schneider added a comment - I would also second exporting of confluence pages (together with its children) into LaTex would solve many issues. Please add it and we researchers will absolutely love you.

            Scot Frank added a comment -

            I would also like this feature. LaTeX is one of the most versatile formats to use, and especially useful for low-level access and editing in 3rd-world countries for teaching or presentation purposes.

            Scot Frank added a comment - I would also like this feature. LaTeX is one of the most versatile formats to use, and especially useful for low-level access and editing in 3rd-world countries for teaching or presentation purposes.

            LaTex is an excepted form of communicating mathmatical concepts and used in the engineering community. I would like to second the need; for adding LaTex, which could be used for engineering centric companies such as ours (Raytheon).

            Jesse Crowley added a comment - LaTex is an excepted form of communicating mathmatical concepts and used in the engineering community. I would like to second the need; for adding LaTex, which could be used for engineering centric companies such as ours (Raytheon).

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