title: Is a successor for TeX/LaTeX in sight?
body: <p>TeX/LaTeX is great, I use it in many ways. Some of its advantages are:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>it uses text files, this way the input-files can be diffed and many tools exist to work with text</li>
  <li>it is very flexible</li>
  <li>it has a stable layout: if I change something at the start of the document, it doesn't affect other things at the end of the document</li>
  <li>it has many extensions to reach different goals (a successor would start without extensions, but would have a good extension-system)</li>
  <li>you can use standard build control tools to support complicated documents (thanks dmckee)</li>
  <li>you can encapsulate solutions and copy&amp;paste them to new documents or send them to others to learn from (thanks dmckee)</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>But on the other hand some little things are not so good:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>it is hard to learn at the beginning</li>
  <li>it is complicated to control position of images</li>
  <li>a few things are a little counter-intuitive</li>
  <li>sometimes you have to type too much (begin{itemize} ... \end{itemize})</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>So, does there exist a successor/alternative to LaTeX or at least is some hot candidate for an alternative in development. A real successor/good alternative would keep the advantages and fix the disadvantages, or at least some of them.</p>