I definitely appreciate what you are saying but when I read the thread three separate response to comments were example incantations of Pandoc. Pandoc is amazi

I definitely appreciate what you are saying but when I read the thread three separate response to comments were example incantations of Pandoc. Pandoc is amazing, this appears to a weekend project. Is Latex requiring processing power to generate PDFs that become professional publishing house books surprising? Of course not. Latex is sick. I was a non-tech student in college, and when I discovered Latex in a CS class my mind was blow and loved it for a while, despite fucking up regularly with its learning curve. (Funny anecdote: I even had a terrible philosophy professor in my liberal arts college senior year who went to Stanford and noticed he used Latex for everything, unlike any professor at my tech-illiterate school; he used it because his friend was this guy Donald Knuth; I kissed that guy's ass for the rest of the semester after that tidbit just for stories about Knuth). My point was scaling Latex in a server environment would be difficult, and I was addressing a few people equating this whole thing to Pandoc, which I did not find fair. Running Latex concurrently for lots of people sounds rough to me, but then again I never implemeneted anything nearly as complicated as that. Gitit does not just give you just a printable HTML page. If you notice, gitit uses the Pandoc backend to export many formats. It might not set them as printable, but to see gitit+pandoc in action, look at the export menu to the bottom left corner of the default them on the page you link. You do not see the PDF format export, because as I mentioned in my original comment, by default Pandoc Latex+PDF support is not enabled because of said performance load. I was speculating writing an equivalent of this service with Pandoc and Haskell is doable, but solely generating PDFs would be a load that might make it difficult at scale. I do not know. ShareLatex, who arguably is way ahead beyond my speculation because they implemented a powerful web-based Latex editor, did some very unorthodox (as far as just reloading Latex in the shell every time) architecture to make it fast and resilient. I am not sure how to respond to the comment re Gitit and Pandoc. Gitit is basically a wrapper around Pandoc, and it is merely a web interface to everything Pandoc does for different document formats, and hackage clearly lists it as a dependency with version 1.10+.[0] I know they are not apple to apple comparison. It was just a speculation. In the other post I was actually using Gitit and Pandoc interchangeably because the latter is the integral component of the former. I feel there is a type checking joke lurking in my last line, but I am too tired to find it. [0] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gitit-0.10.3.1 http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gitit-0.10.3.1