[muhfuhkuh]

This is really cool stuff. Reminds me of a stripped down version of notch's live coding sessions for Ludum Dare.

Any reason you chose LaTeX as your content dev language and publishing over something a little "easier" like DocBook XML and Publican (which uses LaTeX as an intermediate build language to create PDFs)? Is it required, what you're used to, or purity of notation?

[hds]

Partly it's what I'm used to, but I've yet to find anything "easier" for the large amount of mathematics I typeset. There is a lot of notation and very little graphics or difficult formatting.

[irremediable]

I think LaTeX remains the go-to language for this kind of stuff. Certainly, every STEM academic I've worked with has used it.

[j2kun]

There's nothing more suspicious than a math paper written in something besides TeX.

[SuitAndThai]

It's probably because the author needs to describe complex mathematics and DocBook is unable to describe mathematics[1]. I can't speak much about Publican however.

1. http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Math.html

[jisterdev]

'content dev'. yuck.