ibexdoc

Hey, I've made huge leaps forward with <ibex-doc>... mainly because I
was forced to in order to not suffer under the pain of raw LaTeX for
some presentations and articles I've had to write for my research
recently.

Anyways, it's shaping up really nicely.  Very simple, clean format
(only 12-15 tags), and from the same structure you can get documents
or slides like this:

  http://www.megacz.com/tmp/slides.pdf

Markup is XML for *structure* and wiki for formatting/semantics.  I
disagree with most XML formats that italics (actually "emphasis"),
boldface, typewriter font, and bullet lists are "markup" -- if you
removed these from your document, its meaning actually changes.
Anyways, it's much easier to type like this:

   <section title="my cool document"/>

       This is really neat.  Yep yep.

       Here's another paragraph (blank lines separate them)

       - Here
          - Is
             - a
             - bulleted
             - list
             - at different levels

       I can even use **italics**, __boldface__, and [[monospace]]!

It has an escape hatch if you need to do TeX math (see slide 3 or 4)
although I hope to replace that with a MathML-to-TeX translator.
Eventually I'll offer other backend formats as well (html, text, etc)
since math equations are the only place where the underlying TeX shows
through (in those cases I'll run pdftex and convert the resulting pdf
into an inline .svg -- scalable equations in web pages at last!).

  - a

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