As a heavy LaTeX user (phd student; can't escape it), I'm convinced that there is a small enough subset of LaTeX that actually gets used day-to-day that someone could figure out a way to shim it into something like Markdown.
And then, for the LaTeX that you can't shim in, just have some escape hatch that sends fragments out to a renderer.
If I could only have:
* Math mode
* Citations and Bib files
* Labels and References
Then I'd be willing to go through a lot of extra pain to get all the weird tables and precise image placements that are inevitable in a 2-column ACM format.
EDIT: Having just investigated Pandoc, which many here are talking about, I realize this might be exactly what I've been looking for :)
rst2latex has worked very well for me. The current version has math mode. I've occasionally had to write some custom LaTeX to get things like natbib to work, but it's largely been problem-free.
And then, for the LaTeX that you can't shim in, just have some escape hatch that sends fragments out to a renderer. If I could only have:
Then I'd be willing to go through a lot of extra pain to get all the weird tables and precise image placements that are inevitable in a 2-column ACM format.EDIT: Having just investigated Pandoc, which many here are talking about, I realize this might be exactly what I've been looking for :)