Alternative to LaTeX?

Sat Aug 5 13:29:44 UTC 2006

Thanks mamato, I'll remember that trick.

On 8/5/06, mamato <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
>
> 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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