LaTeX is great when you need it (i.e. to write mathematics, draw clever diagrams, or need a Turing-complete programming language in your markup language), but w

LaTeX is great when you need it (i.e. to write mathematics, draw clever diagrams, or need a Turing-complete programming language in your markup language), but when you don't, it's unnecessarily cumbersome, and Markdown is a lot better. Both have a settled spot in my toolbox, but it's not the same spot. If you use Pandoc to generate e.g. HTML documents from your Markdown files, it's also worth remembering that TeX math mode is available in that. For example, [1] is an article on my website written in Markdown, but manages to include a decent amount of mathematics (replace .html with .txt for the source file). [1] http://extralogical.net/articles/arithmetic-godel-system-t.html http://extralogical.net/articles/arithmetic-godel-system-t.h...