yep, markdown is a great alternative to LaTeX if you don’t need fancy layouts or anything special
Comment on LPT Do it.
sandalbucket@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Had to write a paper in college with 100 citations.
We used zotero for citation management, and it would dump a bibtex file on demand.
The paper was written in markdown, stored in git, and rendered through pandoc. We would cite a paper with parentheses and something resembling an id, like (lewis).
We gave pandoc a “citation style definition”, and it took care of everything. Every citation was perfectly formatted. The bibliography was perfectly formatted. Inline references were perfect. Numbering was perfect. All the metadata was ripped from pdfs automatically. It was downright magical.
hinterlufer@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
sandalbucket@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Markdown + pandoc means it goes through an intermediary latex template on the way to pdf land - which means your markdown can be a bastardized mix of markdown, html, latex commands, and sometimes more ;)
Waterdoc@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Exactly my workflow, but I used R Markdown!
sandalbucket@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I absolutely love R markdown! Being able to iterate on your analysis and report at the same time is fantastic
TheChargedCreeper864@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
This is what I (a non coder who only knows git “download the Yuzu repo before they nuke it” and git “give me all the updates”) want to do when I get to write a paper. How much git did you have to learn to do this?
prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This is just basic make changes to file, git add and commit workflow. Other features of git like branching can be leveraged for greater control but are optional. What makes it magical is 3 seperate systems working together with such symphony namely git, Zotero and pandoc. Zotero is citation manager that you can use store scientific articles, papers, thesis etc. and it can produce a bibliography file and pandoc can reference those along with the citations in the make file to create a clean typesetted Word or LaTeX pdf with precise numbering, table of contents, citations and bibliography with correct format without you needing to edit anything.