Re:How can I explain the meaning of LaTeX to my grandma?
by moe on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @08:35PM
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I'd like to hear what you have in mind.
Personally I've always been fond of asciidoc[1].
It even has a LaTeX-backend but I imagine the impedance mismatch must be problematic (I have not tried it).
However, realistically the problem will probably just solve itself in the midterm. Paper is rapidly going out of fashion after all, and so will anachronisms like universities requiring their students to submit content in arcane file formats.
Personally I've always been fond of asciidoc[1].
It even has a LaTeX-backend but I imagine the impedance mismatch must be problematic (I have not tried it).
However, realistically the problem will probably just solve itself in the midterm. Paper is rapidly going out of fashion after all, and so will anachronisms like universities requiring their students to submit content in arcane file formats.
[1] http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/