What&#x27;s wrong with LaTeX (or extensions like XeTeX or LuaTeX)? Cursory searching pops up tools such as LaTeXML (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dlmf.nist.gov&#x2F;LaTeXML" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dlmf.nist.gov&#x2F;LaTeXML</a>) for converting from LaTeX to XML; not that I&#x27;ve used it, but it seems to have about a 60% success rate at converting arXiv papers [1].  That&#x27;s still about 20,000 papers that don&#x27;t build successfully, but it&#x27;s a tool that could be improved.<p>What would you suggest as an alternative to LaTeX or Word?<p>I&#x27;m just curious; I use LaTeX regularly and think it works just fine.<p>[1]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxmliv.kwarc.info&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxmliv.kwarc.info&#x2F;</a>