Interesting. Thanks for the detailed answer. I'm not into MUDs or Latex myself, but will check out your projects at least some to see if I can learn any languag

Interesting. Thanks for the detailed answer. I'm not into MUDs or Latex myself, but will check out your projects at least some to see if I can learn any language idioms or usage of language features. I did write a couple of small tools using my xtopdf toolkit (Python), to allow creation of simple PDF ebooks from text or XML input, but it does not use a markup approach, instead, it leverages the structure of text and XML files.