Heh. After dealing with RTF, LaTeX seems like a pillar of elegance and grace. (Don't do RTF, kids. It'll rot your mind.)

I don't know about you, but almost everything I write has very basic formatting needs: section headings, bold/italic/underline control, maybe some font selection control, and bulleted (and numbered) lists are a plus. I already have code (patched HTML::FromText -- one of these days I'll even finish it and release it!) to take casually formatted (*bold*, _underline_, etc) text and turn it into acceptable HTML; it shouldn't be terribly difficult to adapt that to produce LaTeX (or ?roff) markup, instead. Start small....

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The hell with paco, vote for Erudil!