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As I mentioned in #134 I (and I think a lot of other scholars) have been waiting for something like gitbook to come along for a very long time.
This might just be one of the missing pieces to the puzzle of online scientific publishing.
PDFs, no matter how well structured and meta-data-ed always felt a little awkard online, with people having to download them and all.
Still, academic publishing as over decades (nay, centuries) developed many helpful conventions (theorem numbering, glossaries, acronyms, – you name it) that don't sit easily with markdown.
Fortunately, we have one markup language that has implemented all of these things already: LaTeX.
Of course, much of the typesetting genius (and baggage) of TeX becomes redundant once you publish to a static website.
But still, the conventions have all been implemented, and people know who to write in this markup (not to mention legacy projects).
So here's my (long-winded) question: any chance gitbook might evolve to be a front-end to LaTeX, too? Maybe via Pandoc?
Am I making sense?