Systems and methods for document publishing

A document publishing system for publishing text files containing mathematical expressions to a web-ready file, comprising:

• a publishing server, configured to:
• receive a template document as a text file having a template structure comprising a plurality of identifier fields and content fields, each of the content fields being associated with a respective of the plurality of identifier fields, wherein the content fields are authored with data, and the data in at least one content field comprises a mathematical expression;
• and
• one or more computer processing devices, configured to:
• convert the mathematical expression to a first web language format within the template document;
• export the template document to a second web language format to generate an exported file;
• and
• generate the web-ready file from the exported file by assembling contents of the exported file in accordance with the plurality of content fields and associated respective identifier fields defined in the template document.