Alternative to LaTeX?

[Sean Hammond]

A couple of things I don't think got mentioned in this thread are:

* Texmaker: A FLOSS Latex editor similar to Kyle but faster (I'm
told). It has a good feature list including an integrated LaTeX to
HTML conversion tool. It looks good. Looks like it's a KDE app.
Texmaker doesn't appear to be in Ubuntu, even in univsere. URL:
http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/

* Hevea: This one is in Ubuntu. It's a complete LaTeX to HTML
converter, and looks quite good. URL: http://hevea.inria.fr/index.html

On 5/11/06, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at gmail.com> 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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