html - What language should I use for editing documents? -

document editors nice have limitations. alternative them? know html , css , while can job, ill-suited printed documents. thinking in learning latex, because many scholars use it. wonder if recommend language such postscript.

i got chance write entire paper in latex final semester of college , found easier thought be. couple of nice things found were

1. a lightweight syntax things (tables being real offender, no 1 can text tables right).
2. an extremely wide array of syntax doing automatically marking chemical formula writing inline lists.
3. beautiful output automatically.
4. extremely easy write modular documents might store chapter in file , \include{} in another. 1 particularly nice use found include code had written in document referencing files.
5. wonderful support footnotes , bibliographic references.
6. libraries can imagine.

the major drawbacks are, imho:

1. a lack of real direction or life in language. feels dead, , not because it's done.
2. a frustrating build process, although there tools that, simple bash script full fledged make file.

if you're interested in learning latex, recommend starting out reading not short introduction latex 2e pdf.

however, decided against using latex things write these days because feels dead , has frustrating build process. instead switched on multimarkdown, supported , can transformed large array of other formats, including latex can hand massaged if need in order format expected publication. if haven't played multimarkdown or markdown before, highly recommend checking them out. syntax extremely lightweight , natural, compared latex. find except of higher level typographical constructs, multimarkdown supports need on regular basis.

my 2 cents.