I like really impressed by how useful a well designed Markdown editor can be in previewing the final result.

Why can't we have the same thing for linguistics.

Imagine what a basic CFG syntax markdown could look like. I could write simple rules:

`S --> NP VP`
`NP --> Det N`
`VP --> V NP`

And they'd just be converted into a simple tree in the preview just like that (without lexical items in notes).

And we could have:

`[.S [.NP Something ] [.VP [.V like ] [.NP this ] ] ]`

There's no reason why not.

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LaTeX. That's a thing I should probably be more familiar with...