Honestly the thing that I always find myself coming back to is Pandoc + Markdown, and then rendering the document with XeLaTeX. I personally find markdown very

Honestly the thing that I always find myself coming back to is Pandoc + Markdown, and then rendering the document with XeLaTeX. I personally find markdown very easy to write and parse on the fly, and it has a pretty straightforward transformation to LaTeX so I get pretty documents. I can also easily render it to other formats if I need to. Pandoc rocks.