# Wherefore art thou RedCloth 3.1?

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**Created:** [February 28, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wherefore-art-thou-redcloth-3-1/74737 "2006-02-28T15:10:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bil_K)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wherefore-art-thou-redcloth-3-1/74737/1 "2006-02-28T15:10:02Z")

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In ruby-talk 129874 (7 Feb '05), why the lucky stiff wrote:

> Let me give you a roadmap of what to expect with RedCloth 3 in the  
> coming months.
> 
> RedCloth 3.1 will focus on getting us diverse outputs. I am  
> reconciling  
> LaTeX and Docbook patches right now. I also have a ClibPDF patch.

Have the PDF output plans been tabled?

## Thanks,

Bil K.

> **[FUN3D Manual](https://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov/)**
>
> FUN3D suite of CFD simulation and design tools

BTW, ?Wherefore? means ?why? according to  
[http://www.cjr.org/tools/lc/wherefore.asp](http://www.cjr.org/tools/lc/wherefore.asp)

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**Author:** ![Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bil_K)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wherefore-art-thou-redcloth-3-1/74737/2 "2006-02-28T16:51:42Z")

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On 2/28/06, Bil K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> In ruby-talk 129874 (7 Feb '05), why the lucky stiff wrote:
> 
> > Let me give you a roadmap of what to expect with RedCloth 3 in the  
> > coming months.
> > 
> > RedCloth 3.1 will focus on getting us diverse outputs. I am reconciling  
> > LaTeX and Docbook patches right now. I also have a ClibPDF patch.
> 
> Have the PDF output plans been tabled?

Whoa! If Redcloth gets these things, it’ll make Ruport’s life a lot  
easier!

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**Author:** ![Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bil_K)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wherefore-art-thou-redcloth-3-1/74737/3 "2006-03-02T02:29:20Z")

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On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 00:48:44 +0900, Gregory B. wrote:

> Whoa! If Redcloth gets these things, it’ll make Ruport’s life a lot easier!

Don’t get too excited - I was all atwitter too until I realized that  
that  
post was from February _2005_. RedCloth dev isn’t quite dead - svn log  
shows occasional checkins to trunk in the past few months - but I  
haven’t  
seen any talk of release anywhere, or even acknowledgement of the known  
bugs in 3.0.4, the redcloth-upwards mailing list is dormant, and  
questions  
here go unanswered by the authors.

Sniff.

Jay L.