Can DITA be rendered to PDF via LaTeX rather than XSL-FO?
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(Typing "DITA" and "LaTeX" into Google is NSFW, but this is a genuine question!)

I'm a technical writer rather than coder, but I'd appreciate a coder's answer.

DITA is a maturing standard for modular technical writing. It seems to be gaining some popularly in the enterprise, but it's a bit hard to tell.

The DITA-OT's PDF rendering is well known for being underwhelming, and this seems to be a feature of the limited XSL-FO transforms. I think this is a big factor in DITA's (so far) low adoption.

I've used LaTeX via Org-mode, texinfo, LyX, etc., and these all produce lovely PDFs with the classy TeX look.

I'm wondering why no-one seems to have produced a DITA to PDF rendering via LaTeX. Maybe it's technically very difficult, or maybe no-one's thought of it. Neither of these seem all that likely.

Has any work been done on this? -- thanks

