I agree, as much as I like LaTeX, and what it produces, it is dated. It's missing modern features. Lots of stuff is clunky. The content part should be declarati

I agree, as much as I like LaTeX, and what it produces, it is dated. It's missing modern features. Lots of stuff is clunky. The content part should be declarative programming. It should be functional underneath the hood. I think ggplot2 is maybe an example of declarative visualization creation. You just declare what is in the document, very clear structure. Perhaps there is some styling/rendering component you can tweak. Seems like a job for Haskell. Needs like a simple DSL in a sense though. At least you can use Pandoc to turn old LaTeX documents into html/etc. I kind of like using tex flavoured markdown and just generating html with pandoc.