markdown / pandoc work pretty well for that :) http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
I use it for all non-paper text. Plus you can simply output a .tex file and put it into a real latex document if needed. On 2012-07-25, at 22:04, Tudor Girba wrote: > The Pier Book offers this pretty much out of the box. > > Doru > > > On 25 Jul 2012, at 11:22, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > >> Hi >> >> To support the publication in pdf and html directly, plus let people not to >> bother about latex, >> I would really to experiment the following for the next chapters of books. >> I do not know well markdown but I would like to know if the following makes >> sense. >> >> I would like to see if we can use markdown (plus some extensions for in >> text annotation, figure definition) >> as pivot language and to be able to generate latex and html from it. >> >> From a simple analysis of current chapter here are the needs: >> >> structure >> title (with ref) >> section (with ref) >> subsection >> paragraph >> itemize/enumerate >> code snippet (with ref) >> figure with caption and ref >> >> inside a text area >> link >> code >> index >> comment for editor >> citation >> reference >> >> I probably miss some of them but this is the core and we can reduce the >> number from the latex stand point. >> What do you think? Does markdown support the item above. >> Is the petitMarkdown parser working? Because I would like to write a visitor >> that generates the latex we use for the book. >> >> I would like to use Zinc documentation as a test. >> >> Stef >> >> > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "Being happy is a matter of choice." > > > >
