I would love to see a combination of Markdown + Pandoc used to generate LaTeX whilst keeping the writing process content-centric.
I find the mathematical typesetting functionality of LaTeX to be incredible, but anything else (tables, columns, etc.) to be an absolute nightmare.
Pandoc allows for Lua filter to pre-process an AST generated from raw Markdown, and can then convert to 'traditional' LaTeX - why can't we utilise the best of both worlds?
For example, I used Pandoc to create Beamer slides in Markdown, with nice `div` syntax and maths typesetting - the advantage was I could focus on the semantics (and have a directly readable document) without any LaTeX fluff that was purely aesthetic.
I find the mathematical typesetting functionality of LaTeX to be incredible, but anything else (tables, columns, etc.) to be an absolute nightmare.
Pandoc allows for Lua filter to pre-process an AST generated from raw Markdown, and can then convert to 'traditional' LaTeX - why can't we utilise the best of both worlds?
For example, I used Pandoc to create Beamer slides in Markdown, with nice `div` syntax and maths typesetting - the advantage was I could focus on the semantics (and have a directly readable document) without any LaTeX fluff that was purely aesthetic.