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If you're interesting in retooling your approach, you can try using a stripped down format, like Multi-markdown (http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/feature
by nikdaheratik 9y ago
If you're interesting in retooling your approach, you can try using a stripped down format, like Multi-markdown (http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/features/ http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/features/) and then converting from there to LaTeX or other formats using Pandoc (https://pandoc.org/ https://pandoc.org/) or other tools. This has a learning curve by can definitely be easier than trying to wrangle TeX directly.
I did kind of a roll-your-own publishing system (focusing on ePub) in an experimental fashion and it worked okay but I didn't spend too much time on it as I had other concerns. I did a writeup on that here (http://theheratik.net/books/tech-epub/ http://theheratik.net/books/tech-epub/), not that it matters much.
- kxyvr 9y agoThanks for the links! I haven't looked at multi-markdown before, but I had looked at a variety of pandoc/markdown/latex solutions in the past. In truth, it's still on my radar and I do think that pandoc represents a really nice, powerful toolchain that is more flexible than latex in many ways. Though, to be sure, they solve related, but different problems. That said, there are a couple of fiddly things that I have not had the chance to investigate such as the algorithmic generation of text, which I alluded to in other posts. In any case, yes, I think that pandoc may work well. Right now, the two approaches that I'd like to experiment with more are the pandoc/markdown/latex toolchain as well as LuaTex.