<story><title>Pandoc</title><url>https://pandoc.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smohare</author><text>I’ve never understood the impetus for not using full LaTeX in an academic contex, given that the boiler plate is so minimal and presumably one has a built up a personal template over time.&lt;p&gt;For blog posts and notes I see the appeal, since the boilerplate can be a hindrance to spontaneous writing.</text></item><item><author>Schiphol</author><text>I do all of my academic writing in pandoc. As compared to LaTeX this means no boilerplate (yet you can still use full LaTeX syntax for equations and the like) and, if the publisher &amp;#x27;needs&amp;#x27; a Word file, you are one click away from providing it. All with plain text files that you can put under version control, get meaningful diffs, etc. It&amp;#x27;s just great.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CJefferson</author><text>Latex can&amp;#x27;t produce web output, which is increasingly a target I want.&lt;p&gt;Also, Latex can&amp;#x27;t produce any output which is accessible to blind people (other than giving them the raw LaTeX). The PDFs latex produces are probably the least accessible format available (much worse than a word proeuced pdf, or some html). This matters to me, and should matter more to other people (in my opinion).</text></comment>
<story><title>Pandoc</title><url>https://pandoc.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smohare</author><text>I’ve never understood the impetus for not using full LaTeX in an academic contex, given that the boiler plate is so minimal and presumably one has a built up a personal template over time.&lt;p&gt;For blog posts and notes I see the appeal, since the boilerplate can be a hindrance to spontaneous writing.</text></item><item><author>Schiphol</author><text>I do all of my academic writing in pandoc. As compared to LaTeX this means no boilerplate (yet you can still use full LaTeX syntax for equations and the like) and, if the publisher &amp;#x27;needs&amp;#x27; a Word file, you are one click away from providing it. All with plain text files that you can put under version control, get meaningful diffs, etc. It&amp;#x27;s just great.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BeetleB</author><text>&amp;gt;I’ve never understood the impetus for not using full LaTeX in an academic contex, given that the boiler plate is so minimal and presumably one has a built up a personal template over time.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t find the boilerplate minimal at all. Contrast the following:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    \begin{itemize}
     \item First
     \item Second
     \item Third
    \end{itemize}
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
with&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;     - First
     - Second
     - Third
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
I won&amp;#x27;t even get into the hell that is tables.&lt;p&gt;I loved LaTeX until I discovered Org Mode. Pandoc also scratches the same itch.</text></comment>