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The following is a non-exhaustive list of tools that can be used as or combined into a preprocessors to finally generate LaTeX documents. My idea of “preprocessing” here includes converting markuped (reStructuredText, Markdown, MediaWiki, …) documents to LaTeX, custom markup extensions and Unicode character support.

I also include links to resources that look helpful w.r.t working with or extending the itemised tools.

Since I wanted to work with and thereby learn a contemporary scripting/dynamic language, I focused on tools written in Python and Ruby. The list nevertheless also contains tools written in other languages.

• DocUtils – Python
  • Python LaTeX Setup
  • Quick reStructuredText
  • Docutils Hacker’s Guide
  • Generating LaTeX with Docutils
  • Creating reStructuredText Directives
  • Syntax Highlight
  • Syntax-highlighted code blocks for docutils
• Sphinx – Python, builds upon DocUtils
  • LaTeX, Unicode
  • Matplotlib extension
  • OpenERP Project
  • Hello World Sphinx Extension
  • LaTeX customization
  • How to get separate tex file with LaTeX Builder?
  • Writing Technical Documentation with Sphinx, Paver, and Cog
• MultiMarkdown – Perl, converts to HTML first, then to LaTeX
• Deplate – Ruby
• Maruku – Ruby
• Pandoc – Haskell
• RapidTeX – Python
• texpp – C

In a probability scenario with two possible results per turn (with probabilities p, q = 1 - p) the expected value had to be minimised. This is done in Mathematica with FindMinimum[{f, constraints}, {x, y, ...}], and in my case:

FindMinimum[
   {2 p*q + 3 (p^3 + 2 p^2 q + q^2 p + q^3) + 4 (q^2 p^2 + q^3 p), q == 1 - p},
   {p, q}
]