A mini D book: Markdown or LaTeX?

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 25 January 2017 at 10:57:41 UTC, Russel Winder 
wrote:
> Asciidoc (and it's continuation Asciidoctor) was invented to be 
> a human usable front end to the DocBook/XML toolchain – and it 
> still works for this. Humans should not have to write XML. 
> Hence Asciidoctor.

DocBook FTW, other magical formats are beyond pathetic. What? 
Asccidoc, Asciidoctor, Markdown, SO Markdown, GH Markdown, this 
Markdown, that Markdown, Restructured text, yaml, TeX, LaTeX, 
XeLaTeX, people invented tons of formats just to markup text for 
books and tons of their clones, extensions and incompatibilities, 
it's just laughable. Guess what % character means it those 
magical languages, or why Markdown chose an opposite approach to 
BBcode for square brackets, because it's more fun this way? XML 
is one uniform regular readable syntax for everything, it 
consists of only tags, attributes and comments, no arbitrary 
magical special characters for god only knows what.