On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 03:29:35PM +0200, Alexander Teinum wrote: > I want to use Markdown for writing university documents, but it lacks > features such as table of contents, list of figures, and reference lists. > > HTML is not something I would choose for output format, since it doesn?t > know the height of a page. > > Personally, I?d love to see a Markdown-language with some ?university > extensions?. It should have a fast compiler written in C or Go. It should > output a PDF, follow the APA Style ? well, that?s what we?re supposed to > follow at my university in Norway. > > All of this can be modularized. Perhaps Markdown with macro support would > solve the problem. Maybe it already exists? > > I?m learning troff right now so that I can write man-pages. It seems like a > nice enough language. I have used LaTeX for university work earlier, and the > result was really nice. > > I do find LaTeX and troff hard to get into. I am not able to fully express > what I feel about this, but it has something to do with the documentation. > It?s more inaccessible compared to Markdown and HTML. LaTeX in itself isn?t > that hard, but the whole ecosystem around it feels scary.
latex/tex may be hard to get into initially, but it offers pretty good support for references, and support for mathematical equations etc. I would hardly think one would want to use markdown (or a markdown like system) to typeset mathematical equations which is it's strong point. -- Jimmy Tang Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing, Lloyd Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/
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