[DocTomoe]

I am still looking for a text markup system that gives me good PDFs with DTP-grade text setting and and is plain-text, so I can work with standard version control programs. Right now, only TeX/LaTeX comes close. AsciiDoctor is not doing citations well, Markdown is basically a mess which differs in implementation, also footnotes and citations.

Do you have something better?

[hanche]

I think (though I can’t find a reference) that Knuth hoped that some of the algorithms developed for TeX, such as the hyphenation and line breaking algorithms, would catch on and be used by other, non-TeX typesetting software. If that has ever happened, I a unaware of any examples. That’s a pity.

[gglitch]

I don’t have an opinion about whether they’re better or worse, but have you tried groff or heirloom troff?

[chaoxu]

How is Quarto? It uses Pandoc Markdown.

[elashri]

There was a discussion about that last year [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30042831