How to write in LazyTeX instead of strict LaTeX
▻http://hroy.eu/tips/TeX/LazyTex
TL;DR Use Pandoc, write your document in a combination of YAML, Markdown and, when you need it, inline LaTeX. Read Pandoc’s README.
TeX is awesome. LaTeX was made to make it easier to use TeX and produce high-quality documents.
Still, there are two downsides with using LaTeX:
the source of your document is a bit cryptic for people who aren’t used to source code TeX was designed for paper as the output and thus comes with its limitations.
Today, most LaTeX documents end up as PDF and/or printed on paper (which is kind of the same). This is nice, but PDF and paper are not mediums that enable others to co-edit the text (unless they can work with the LaTeX source, but most people won’t learn that, see point 1 above).
This is especially sad because LaTeX is not only able to produce awesome (...)