On: New scientific markup language

[mtdewcmu]

So the consensus is that LaTeX is perfect, except that it's complex and hard to use. What's the evidence that recreating LaTeX from scratch will lead to something simpler?

[stared → mtdewcmu]

My idea is to add one more layer, rather than recreate it from scratch. Many things in LaTeX are wonderful and would be hard to recreate.

Bear in mind that LaTeX itself is a layer to TeX.

[rout39574 → stared]

So evaluate some of the existing 'one more layers' rather than inventing your own one of those.

A discussion of new scientific markup that doesn't mention org-mode is, IMO, skipping the background research.

Not that org-mode necessarily solves your problem, but it is the center of mass of a pretty substantial research publication community.

[stared → rout39574]

So feel free to add. It is a collaborative discussion.