### re: Let's find something better than LaTeX VIEW POST

re: I think a good replacement for LaTeX is bookdown.org/ It´s perfect for any book. Technical or Non Technical. The bookdown package is a free and o...

Bookdown contains some nice extensions of Markdown but lacks a style language, table support and is bound too tightly to R (which itself contains some strange constructs by itself)

Bookdown is a wraper to pandoc and rmarkdown. You can choose to use simple tables or advanced tables using latex or R code.

pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#tables

bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/tables...

When you do not want a table to float in PDF, you may use the LaTeX package longtable, which can break a table across multiple pages. To use longtable, pass longtable = TRUE to kable(), and make sure to include \usepackage{longtable} in the LaTeX preamble (see Section 4.1 for how to customize the LaTeX preamble). Of course, this is irrelevant to HTML output, since tables in HTML do not need to float.

``````knitr::kable(
iris[1:55, ], longtable = TRUE, booktabs = TRUE,
caption = 'A table generated by the longtable package.'
)
``````

For styling you can use themes bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/themin...

I know that it can be seen odd that even using a powerful tool like bookdown you still need LaTex for certain operations. But I think using LaTex in certain areas that excells, it's better to use LaTeX for everything

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