Co-developers wanted: document markup language

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

Wildemar Wildenburger writes:

> [...]
> 
>> Well, because they are awful.  ;-)  I don't see that there is a
>> bunch of already existing projects, in fact, I don't see anyone
>> challenging LaTeX at all.  However, competition is a good thing,
>> and I think there are enough aspects about LaTeX that can be done
>> better so that this project is worth being done.
>  
> Well there is ConTeXt <URL:http://wiki.contextgarden.net/>. I've
> never actually used it, but from reading the docs I deem it a very
> attractive alternative to LaTeX.

That's right, I failed to mention ConTeXt, which really is a
competitor to LaTeX.  I even took one good idea from context, namely
the availability of syntax elements in different human languages.

However, ConTeXt documents are as much cluttered as LaTeX.  ConTeXt
is a huge system with the aim of fine control on the PDF layout.
Therefore, it is even harder to convert it to HTML than it is for
LaTeX.  Besides, I never managed to comprehend its documentation.

It has its good aspects, too, but these are the reasons why I don't
think that it would be a good starting point for improving the
situation with plain text document markup languages.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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