Lately I have been trying a bit Typst, which tries to be a more modern version of LaTeX. So far I have to say I'm impressed. I would say it feels more like Markdown on steroids. The web app is great, and documentation is super clear and useful.
Only downside: most probably journals will have problems accepting this very novel language. I hope it will grow in popularity, because I believe it's a great initiative!
@vbuendiar (Not trying to spam you, I promise lol)
Have you seen/tried Org-Mode yet (it's available for more than just emacs now)? If not, I'd be happy to send you a demo-paper template I wrote for an IEEE journal. It's amazing for reproducible research, and relegates LaTeX to only the parts where you aboslutely need it (and lets you compile and display chunks of LaTeX without re-compiling the whole document), while allowing code, graphics, and citations! It also lets you write all your code in a literate way inside the paper, and you can compile straight to TeX and PDF (and html/beamer/etc if you want lol)! Submitting it along with your paper is one of the best ways, IMO, to provide an "all-in-one paper trail" for your work so other researchers can reproduce it.
I heavily recommend it as a proponent of reproducible research and open source, and I hope you'll give it a look! If you're interested, I can even send you links to my config and such 😁
@johnabs Thank you for the comments and the offer! Unfortunately the paper is almost written (in Latex). I tend to use Revtex, which is the standard for all Physics papers, instead of the IEEE. All journals work well with Latex, so it's ok. Start to feel a bit dated but still works like a charm, at this moment I'm not planning to change it for paper-writing.
For sure the code will be available in GitHub for download... once I clean it up a bit 😅