It allows people to generate the required markup from their favourite mark(down)up.
Focusing on scientific academia, the workflow of data to paper is already solved with ipython+pandoc (ipython notebook).
We have started using ipython notebook 2 months ago, and never looked back. The ipython notebook allows us to do our postprocessing with report write up, making beautiful graphs in matplotlib export it to single file HTML to share with supervisors and collaborators, and then save the entire thing as latex as a starting point for a high quality latex article. When the images are being overhauled we go back to the notebook, save as pdf/svg/png.
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A great solution already exists: pandoc.
It allows people to generate the required markup from their favourite mark(down)up.
Focusing on scientific academia, the workflow of data to paper is already solved with ipython+pandoc (ipython notebook).
We have started using ipython notebook 2 months ago, and never looked back. The ipython notebook allows us to do our postprocessing with report write up, making beautiful graphs in matplotlib export it to single file HTML to share with supervisors and collaborators, and then save the entire thing as latex as a starting point for a high quality latex article. When the images are being overhauled we go back to the notebook, save as pdf/svg/png.