Well, the example on the site show it can be pretty simple (I never had use for it, so I never really tried it ), and formatting could be easely added by editin

Well, the example on the site show it can be pretty simple (I never had use for it, so I never really tried it ), and formatting could be easely added by editing a classic text file... So the machine that would convert latex to PDF doesn't have to be the one the text files are written with.