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I find the documenta= tion rather confusing. But it does look interesting. I don=E2=80=99t find layout that difficult with LaTeX. In fact I=E2=80=99ve= just written a =E2=80=9C30-minute Challenge=E2=80=9D tutorial in which the= user styles a three-chapter novel with front matter in less than 30 minute= s. The chapters are generated with the LaTeX lipsum package. My quest is for a method of styling the various edge cases that come up in = book design with the low cognitive load of markdown. I=E2=80=99m motivated = by, best guess, more than two million self-publishers around the world publ= ishing books each year, all too many of whom rely on their word processors = for type setting. They are often criticized for low production quality and = suffer book sales in the low tens of units. Thanks, LRP Sent from my iPad > On Jul 19, 2022, at 2:14 AM, 'juh' via pandoc-discuss wrote: >=20 > =EF=BB=BFAm Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 04:15:09PM -0400 schrieb Lloyd R. prenti= ce: >> The basic tags of extended Pandoc markdown go far. But it would be >> productive to somehow simply mark a block of copy and apply an >> arbitrary LaTeX package or snippet. This can be done with the LaTeX >> markdown package at the cost of dropping down into plain TeX which is >> much harder to learn than CSS and likely far beyond the skill set of >> most self-publishers. >=20 > Have you ever considered to use ConTeXt?=20 > https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page >=20 > I my experience it is much easier to define custom layouts with ConTeXt > than with LaTeX as the styling is done with key value constructs like in = css. >=20 > With lua scripts you can apply custom environments to blocks.=20 >=20 > juh=20 >=20 > --=20 > Autoren-Homepage: ......... http://literatur.hasecke.com > Satiren & Essays: ......... http://www.sudelbuch.de > Privater Blog: ............ http://www.hasecke.eu > Netzliteratur-Projekt: .... http://www.generationenprojekt.de >=20 >=20 > --=20 > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups= "pandoc-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an= email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgi= d/pandoc-discuss/YtZLu1RFABVwZ2BL%40odysseus. --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= pandoc-discuss" group. 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