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The author is right but IMO totally misses the point. When you do serious writing, you probably do not want to maintain the content in LaTeX. But not because La
by choeger 8y ago
The author is right but IMO totally misses the point. When you do serious writing, you probably do not want to maintain the content in LaTeX. But not because LaTeX is difficult per se, but because there is, for instance, no way to put the content through a decent grammar/style checker and get back some useful annotations.
This is simply because (La-)TeX is not a context-free language. If it was, you could parse all the paragraphs of content and feed them into, say, grammarly. Then you could correct your issues and automatically apply the fixes. As it stands now your only choice is to use a spell checker that already "understands" LaTeX. Unfortunately, that understanding is guaranteed to be wrong at some point.
Regarding the typesetting aspects: I always wondered how much performance one could get out of a "modern" replacement for TeX. Asides from the time it takes to typeset a 100+ page book with some TikZ elements, the results are already quite close to perfect, IMO.
- ummonk 8y agoYeah, I’d love to see an a modern cleaner language that fills the same role as LaTeX. Markdown + CSS doesn’t really fit the bill for a multitude of reasons, but markdown is a good example of how easy it should be to cleanly write simple content.