Is a successor for TeX/LaTeX in sight?

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Published on 2008-11-19T23:59:17Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 7:18 UTC
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TeX/LaTeX is great, I use it in many ways. Some of it's advantages are:

  • it uses text files, this way the input-files can be diffed and many tools exist to work with text
  • it is very flexible
  • it has a stable layout: if I change something at the start of the document, it doesn't affect other things at the end of the document
  • it has many extensions to reach different goals (a successor would start without extensions, but would have a good extension-system)
  • you can use standard build control tools to support complicated documents (thanks dmckee)
  • you can encapsulate solutions and copy&paste them to new documents or send them to others to learn from (thanks dmckee)

But on the other hand some little things are not so good:

  • it is hard to learn at the beginning
  • it is complicated to control position of images
  • a few things are a little counter-intuitive
  • sometimes you have to type too much (begin{itemize} ... \end{itemize})

So, does there exist a successor/alternative to LaTeX or at least is some hot candidate for an alternative in development. A real successor/good alternative would keep the advantages and fix the disadvantages, or at least some of them.

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