I think you're overestimating how long it would take to get something usable put together, if you're only trying to make it usable by you. It took me about one

I think you're overestimating how long it would take to get something usable put together, if you're only trying to make it usable by you. It took me about one hour to write the python scripts, and another hour to learn the appropriate LaTeX document class, and then I just opened up Aquamacs and started typing. (A nice advantage of this is that I programmed it to tell me how far I've gotten on my daily word goals. I don't know any word processor that does exactly this, and it's really handy.)