5 ms·

I use markdown for academic writing, and take huge advantage of related markdown extensions provided by pandoc. For example: This is normal text^[And this is a

I use markdown for academic writing, and take huge advantage of related markdown extensions provided by pandoc. For example: This is normal text^[And this is a footnote, which will be rendered as such when converting to, say, LaTeX] I can also add citations [@likethisone, p. 12]. Pandoc will look up and format that bibtex reference for me. Is there anything like that for Org-Mode?

merlincorey 9y ago
org-mode does indeed support footnotes[fn:1], but I was recently saddened to find that Github doesn't render them (it does render more basic org-mode features, though). org-ref[fn:2] has extensive support for for citations and is explicitly designed for scientific papers and output to LaTeX. [fn:1] Check out http://orgmode.org/manual/Footnotes.html http://orgmode.org/manual/Footnotes.html [fn:2] Check out https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref/blob/master/org-ref.org https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref/blob/master/org-ref.org
- kaushalmodi 9y ago
  > org-mode does indeed support footnotes[fn:1], but I was recently saddened to find that Github doesn't render them (it does render more basic org-mode features, though). GitHub uses this org-ruby project[1] to render Org files. If someone loves Org and knows Ruby too (I don't), please open PR's on that repo to improve Org parsing. [1]: https://github.com/wallyqs/org-ruby https://github.com/wallyqs/org-ruby
peeb 9y ago
Slightly off topic but I have to ask: would you be willing to share your markdown workflow for academic writing? I am very interested in graduating from latex :)
- Normal_gaussian 9y ago
  I would second this, having written a lot of documentation recently (markdown + template + pandoc -> pdf) I am very interested in improving this workflow.
- wodenokoto 9y ago
  Me too. Particularly I am interested in knowing if the setup auto-suggests items from the bibfile when typing [@ That's a big one for me that I've only gotten to work in online latex tools.
  - jboynyc 9y ago
    There are plugins to do this in Vim, Atom and I'm sure other editors as well. See one academic's description of how to tie it all together here: http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/plain-text-citations.html http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/plain-text-citations.html
- jboynyc 9y ago
  This is somehwat geared toward my specific preferences as a social scientist, but my cookiecutter template contains pretty much everything you need for academic writing using pandoc: https://bitbucket.org/jboy1/cookiecutter-pandoc-paper https://bitbucket.org/jboy1/cookiecutter-pandoc-paper You can also consult Kieran Healy's guide here: http://plain-text.co http://plain-text.co (again, this targets social scientists)
peatmoss 9y ago
Yeah, bibliography works with org-mode. You can also do cross references in org-mode, which last I checked were a showstopper for me with Markdown. I've tried doing academic writing in both org-mode and markdown. Org-mode ended up being the only one that did everything I needed.

merlincorey 9y ago

org-mode does indeed support footnotes[fn:1], but I was recently saddened to find that Github doesn't render them (it does render more basic org-mode features, though). org-ref[fn:2] has extensive support for for citations and is explicitly designed for scientific papers and output to LaTeX. [fn:1] Check out http://orgmode.org/manual/Footnotes.html http://orgmode.org/manual/Footnotes.html [fn:2] Check out https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref/blob/master/org-ref.org https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref/blob/master/org-ref.org

kaushalmodi 9y ago
> org-mode does indeed support footnotes[fn:1], but I was recently saddened to find that Github doesn't render them (it does render more basic org-mode features, though). GitHub uses this org-ruby project[1] to render Org files. If someone loves Org and knows Ruby too (I don't), please open PR's on that repo to improve Org parsing. [1]: https://github.com/wallyqs/org-ruby https://github.com/wallyqs/org-ruby

peeb 9y ago

Slightly off topic but I have to ask: would you be willing to share your markdown workflow for academic writing? I am very interested in graduating from latex :)

Normal_gaussian 9y ago
I would second this, having written a lot of documentation recently (markdown + template + pandoc -> pdf) I am very interested in improving this workflow.
wodenokoto 9y ago
Me too. Particularly I am interested in knowing if the setup auto-suggests items from the bibfile when typing [@ That's a big one for me that I've only gotten to work in online latex tools.
- jboynyc 9y ago
  There are plugins to do this in Vim, Atom and I'm sure other editors as well. See one academic's description of how to tie it all together here: http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/plain-text-citations.html http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/plain-text-citations.html
jboynyc 9y ago
This is somehwat geared toward my specific preferences as a social scientist, but my cookiecutter template contains pretty much everything you need for academic writing using pandoc: https://bitbucket.org/jboy1/cookiecutter-pandoc-paper https://bitbucket.org/jboy1/cookiecutter-pandoc-paper You can also consult Kieran Healy's guide here: http://plain-text.co http://plain-text.co (again, this targets social scientists)

peatmoss 9y ago

Yeah, bibliography works with org-mode. You can also do cross references in org-mode, which last I checked were a showstopper for me with Markdown. I've tried doing academic writing in both org-mode and markdown. Org-mode ended up being the only one that did everything I needed.