You also might want to take a look at PollPub: (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pollenpub.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pollenpub.com</a>)<p>Discussed here on HN previously: (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10030585" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10030585</a>)<p>This reinforces some ideas that have been percolating in my brain for about two years. Between Gibook, PollenPub, and now Madoko it is now apparent that for the first time in its existence LaTeX is getting some competition.<p>What LaTeX gets right is that it produces beautiful structured academic-type (references and figures and such) documents. What it gets wrong as Gruber&#x27;s Markdown has shown us is that the basic units of text should look like text and trigger markup through whitespace and intuitive but ultra-minimal markup such that without a processor it looks like an anally retentive writer produced the document. It codifies ascii practices. It&#x27;s one of those ideas that until it happens you&#x27;d never think of it but afterwards you&#x27;re going, &quot;of course!&quot;. Besides Python and Markdown, do any file formats work this way?<p>I&#x27;m not going to make a Steve Yegge type predication but if I were I&#x27;d say that some form of scholarly markdown with multiple toolchain implementations (with git integration) is going to oust LaTeX as the structured document tool of choice. Be interested in what others have to say on the matter.