One "other suitable solution" could be to use Quickscript (http://quickscript.sourceforge.net/index.html http://quickscript.sourceforge.net/index.html). It is

One "other suitable solution" could be to use Quickscript (http://quickscript.sourceforge.net/index.html http://quickscript.sourceforge.net/index.html). It is a Postscript based document formatter. The markup format it uses is relatively straighforward. You would output a suitable "qs" file, and then feed the document formatting code plus the "qs" file through ghostscript to generate a pdf.