Comment by hiAndrewQuinn
1 day ago
Ha, I had the same thought a while back along a slightly different vector (legal-adjacent technical writing). I ended up writing a blog post of my wishlist of features Word has that static site generators like Hugo don't appear to, yet. [1]
I think there's a lot of money to be made in this arena, especially given that LLMs are much easier to integrate with plain text files than with Word documents.
[1]: https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/posts/things-word-h...
Much (but not all) of what you are looking for exists in the reStructuredText [1] space. Sphinx [2] is an SSG focused on technical writing about software that you may find worth exploring.
Also, the scientific text community has been pushing MyST [3] which is an attempt to take some of the best ideas of reStructuredText and reapply them to Markdown-style syntax as a baseline. The MyST tools are a lot more recent and don't have the maturity just yet of Sphinx (including the larger ecosystem such as SaaS hosts like readthedocs).
[1] https://docutils.sourceforge.io/rst.html
[2] https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/index.html
[3] https://mystmd.org/
RST's syntax has always turned me away, despite its extra power here, but MyST looks really interesting. Thank you!