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What would you use instead that would allow you to define your own markup? LaTeX? \em{Hello} isn't much better than <em>Hello</em>.

• Tomte 10y ago
  On non-English keyboards it is even worse.
• zeveb 10y ago
  Sure, a single small example looks almost (but not quite) as bad, but in larger texts LaTeX is basically the text-you're-writing, plus some control stuff, whereas XML interferes with everything.