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Why don't you use Markdown?

• projektfu 8y ago
  I don't think Markdown alone is powerful enough for most LaTeX use cases. What's the markdown for a numbered formula? How do you refer to it? How do you do proper footnotes and endnotes in markdown and keep the references up to date? Thus you need to use some flavor of Markdown that covers what you need, which may not also cover another use you have. It still doesn't address output, so you need to eventually process the Markdown into something readable or typesettable, like LaTeX, which you'll need to understand anyway if you want to get the output you desire or fit into a style set given to you by a journal. Since LaTeX is the lingua franca of math and CS, you're better off just writing in LaTeX and then your advisor/professor/reviewer/editor can see or edit your intent as well as your output. Unfortunately, if you're in Biology, they're all over the place with their styles, and Word is the default. Perhaps then you will benefit from doing things in your own Markdown flavor and translating it to Word in the end using a little script you've written.