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Re:TeX Live 2014 by jimhefferon on Friday June 20, 2014 @12:41PM (#7921479)
> viable alternative to LaTeX: HTML

There is no built-in capability to make common constructs, for instance a simple LaTeX \newcommand{\stdbasis}{E}.

Re:TeX Live 2014 by Derbasti on Friday June 20, 2014 @05:14PM (#7922921)
There is Javascript...
Re:TeX Live 2014 by jimhefferon on Saturday June 21, 2014 @07:56AM (#7924768)
It doesn't seem like much of an improvement on TeX's macro language, to me.