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I keep thinking that what I'd really like is a substitute of latex that is based on markdown and CSS. This is a hint of what would be possible, although of course it would take decades to get to the power of latex.

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I’ve wondered about this, and can’t help but feel that what’s missing are good solid foundations from which webdev and general programming skills could build out everything we’d need to migrate from latex. I would bet the community would move pretty fast if the foundations were there, but I’m not sure there’s anyone with the requisite expertise and will and resources to build it.

Shame really, because IMO a web-aligned document writing tool chain would be awesome.

Pollen is a good intermediate for this if you like lisp.

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