Hi John, As a writer/self-publisher, I value time and workflow efficiency. I also much appreciate the typographic and presentational benefits of LaTeX. But LaTeX markup of content imposes too much distraction and cognitive load for my taste. For this reason I was so enthusiastic about the LaTeX markdown package upon first encounter that I wrote a book striving to demonstrate how it can help self-publishers efficiently publish more beautiful books. Hope to launch by early fall. That said, at my level of inexperience and limited skill with TeX//LaTeX, the LaTeX markdown package falls short in two important ways: 1. Control over vertical spacing 2. Scaling and placement of images And more, I feel that the syntactic bridge between the LaTeX markdown package and the full expressive power of TeX/LaTeX needs further thought and development. I would much applaud a markup system that is as easy to learn, read, and write as markdown but with a simple syntactic bridge into the full power of LaTeX similar to the that between HTML and CSS. All the best, LRP Sent from my iPad > On Jul 14, 2022, at 7:00 PM, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > >  > Very interesting, John! I like the idea of a fixed set of goals (which involved simplicity of implementation) and sticking to them! > > Leonard > >> On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 5:57 PM John MacFarlane wrote: >> I've been designing a new light markup syntax, based on the ideas in my essay "Beyond Markdown" (https://johnmacfarlane.net/beyond-markdown.html). I thought readers of this list might be interested. The language and its rationale are described here: https://github.com/jgm/djot >> >> The repository also contains a very fast parser written in pure Lua. A pandoc custom reader and custom writer are also provided, so you can convert your favorite formats to and from djot. >> >> The syntax is briefly described here: https://djot.net/playground/syntax.html >> >> You can play with the implementation here: https://djot.net/playground/ >> >> John >> >> -- >> 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/msgid/pandoc-discuss/EF9566B8-7F8B-49BD-9FFB-B370750C73BF%40berkeley.edu. > > -- > 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/msgid/pandoc-discuss/CALu%3Dv3LE%2Bb5xZzTzETK-uJbR64D8O49f6dQ5KGKS_hhzY1q4dQ%40mail.gmail.com. -- 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/msgid/pandoc-discuss/76177E55-BE86-4425-A24B-B1849B54B3B4%40writersglen.com.