Show HN: I wrote my own lightweight markup language for mathy blogs

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I wrote my own lightweight markup language, similar to Markdown, that compiles to both HTML5 and LaTeX, supports LaTeX equations (through svgtex, i.e. serverside MathJax), references, captioned figures with semantically correct <figure> tag in html, syntax highlighted code blocks, and so on.

http://www.dllu.net/programming/dllup/

See the text file written in dllup markup language:

http://www.dllu.net/programming/dllup/index.dllu

and the PDF and LaTeX versions:

http://www.dllu.net/programming/dllup/index.pdf

http://www.dllu.net/programming/dllup/index_dllu.tex

The code is very hacky (I wrote it for my own use after all) and might crash if the syntax is not exactly right.

I also have experimental vim syntax highlighting support: http://i.imgur.com/imx6XCY.png

The HTML output of dllup is valid HTML5 (http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.dllu.net/programming/dllup/&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0) and should be sufficiently semantic to be usable in lynx: http://i.imgur.com/ugSXX90.png

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