Re:We need constrainable lightweight markup languages
by theaustinseven on Monday June 06, 2016 @09:09PM
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I don't think that rewriting LaTeX is the right route, but rather compiling something else into LaTeX or making a good LaTeX editor(one where you wouldn't actually be writing straight LaTeX). I think a sort of SASS or Coffeescript type language for Latex would be excellent.
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Re:We need constrainable lightweight markup languages
by jessriedel on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @07:25AM
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A language that compiles into TeX would be fine. However, there is a huge danger that the abstraction isn't robust, and everyone would just need to keep "opening up the hood" to fix things in the original TeX, and then things are worse than they started.