"What's still missing in the LaTeX ecosystem (to my knowledge) is a visually pleasing writing environment." I assume you're not aware of Lyx, then?: http://www

"What's still missing in the LaTeX ecosystem (to my knowledge) is a visually pleasing writing environment." I assume you're not aware of Lyx, then?: http://www.lyx.org/ http://www.lyx.org/ My own preference is to edit in Emacs/Orgmode, which automatically exports to LaTeX and processes to pdf. Somewhat similar to what other people have mentioned with markdown and pandoc, except that working with Orgmode allows you to insert LaTeX directly if you want, although you can certainly do an entire document without any LaTeX at all, and it will still export to LaTeX/pdf beautifully. E.g., https://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg04582.html https://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg04582....