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> I wish somebody would design a modern typesetting system... In theory yes, but I think the problem is that it will never be adopted. Too much of academia is

> I wish somebody would design a modern typesetting system... In theory yes, but I think the problem is that it will never be adopted. Too much of academia is built on the deep assumption that LaTeX is the only possible format that people write documents in. I think one possible way out is to start a new from-scratch TeX engine that is built in such a way that a new typesetting language (or "front end" if you like) can be added to it. This may lead to some reasonable slow migration strategies.

Silhouette 6y ago
In theory yes, but I think the problem is that it will never be adopted. Too much of academia is built on the deep assumption that LaTeX is the only possible format that people write documents in. You're not wrong, but then again, this is not the biggest thing wrong with a lot of academic publishing, and it wouldn't be the biggest tower that a lot of academics are trying to topple. Indeed, breaking away from TeX and breaking away from the traditional journals and the toxic model around publishing in them might be happy partners.