Alternative to LaTeX?

Sat Aug 5 12:23:29 UTC 2006

Sean Hammond;1026075 Wrote: 
> I've been writing a document using markdown and have just gotten to
> the point where all the citations and cross-referencing are such that
> I've had to bite the bullet and convert it to LaTeX.
> 
> LaTeX is such an ugly program. I don't like using it. The syntax is
> ugly and the command line interface is ugly. But nothing else seems to
> provide the power that LaTeX does with respect to:
> 
> * Automating citations and Bibtex
> * Automating cross-referencing
> * Automatic chapter and section numbers, tables of contents and title
> pages, etc.
> 
> I'd really like a program with the niceness and simplicity of
> something like markdown (which is really nice to work with in GEdit
> with syntax highlighting) and the power of LaTeX in those key areas.
> 
> Plain text as the source file is fairly essential, and it'd be good to
> be able to export to HTML and PDF. Another problem with LaTeX is that
> there's no good way to get it into HTML, although pdflatex is good for
> PDF.
> 
> Also I like a bit of colour. All the LaTeX classes I can find are
> black and white. I hate that!
> 
> Any recommendations?
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Hi Sean, 

My friend ever teached me some tricky ways to use markdown and convert
it to LaTeX. It need some effort, but consider you prefer to use the
markdown format, I think it is worthed.
First you write all the document in the markdown format, then you
convert it into HTML. As far I remember, you need to edit some tags in
the HTML file(s), since markdown doesn't produce <html> and <head>
tags. After that, you can use the command 
Code:
--------------------
    gnuhtml2latex filename.html
--------------------

At last, you can convert the LaTex into pdf or something else.

Hope that helps

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mamato