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Hmm, is there a cheatsheet or crash course for it? Not particularly interested in reading a book just to get my editing game on. Just throw me in the deep water
by Tehnix 9y ago
Hmm, is there a cheatsheet or crash course for it? Not particularly interested in reading a book just to get my editing game on. Just throw me in the deep water with the basics, and then I'll jump around to what I need.
Would consider using this instead of LaTeX for my thesis, but not so much if the time investment is too much.
- wodenokoto 9y agoMarkdown to Latex (via pandoc) might be a better option if you don't want to write/compose in latex.
- Tehnix 9y agoGreat suggestion! I'm gonna see if I can get a template set up to use :)
- wodenokoto 9y agoIf I were to do my thesis all over, I would definitely look at how these people use plaintext/markdown to get things done. http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/plain-text-citations.html http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/plain-text-citations.html https://programminghistorian.org/lessons/sustainable-authorship-in-plain-text-using-pandoc-and-markdown https://programminghistorian.org/lessons/sustainable-authors... Good luck!
- peatmoss 9y agoIf your university has requirements around formatting (most do), then you'll likely spend many hours making anything that isn't LaTeX (or, blech, Word) do the right thing. For a thesis, your best case is to just use a university provided LaTeX template and then spend as little time bike shedding as humanly possible.
- Tehnix 9y agoLuckily they don’t :) My Bsc thesis I did in a template another student had made years ago, which swims around, but honestly LaTeX is quite tedious and time wasting to write in for most non math heavy content, which is why I’d prefer something else, that stills allows the same flexibility if needed.
- peatmoss 9y agoMy masters thesis had strict formatting requirements, and I bikeshedded the hell out of building my own LaTeX template in part because I needed an excuse to distract myself from... writing my thesis. And of course there were some ambiguities in the formatting spec that resulted in me needing to track down an advisor to resign a page in my thesis before she boarded a plane to Europe. If I had it to do over again, I'd have spent the time I spent bikeshedding doing something more properly restorative such as exercising or video games or... anything else other than grokking the internals of my home-built LaTeX template :-) Then again, if there are no formatting requirements, a digital version will suffice, and writing Pollen rather than your thesis brings you joy, then go for it.