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I’ve been using Pandoc + Markdown + Latex & friends for a personal project, and at least to me, it seems like a great combo. Prose can be prose, without markup
by jonhohle 7y ago
I’ve been using Pandoc + Markdown + Latex & friends for a personal project, and at least to me, it seems like a great combo. Prose can be prose, without markup interfering. Macros make it easy to separate style, and build consistent structure, and there are oodles of tools in the Tex ecosystem for just about any typographic need you might have. Add Tex.stackexchange and a build system (I use make) and it’s pretty easy to set up a great looking book and and environment that allows you to focus on the content while having all of the bells and whistles (bibliography, index, etc.).
I do like the idea of having the ability to manipulate an AST of the book’s contents. Sometimes it’s difficult to do free-form text manipulation in Latex, which means solving the problem in other ways.
- criddell 7y ago> Sometimes it’s difficult to do free-form text manipulation in Latex, which means solving the problem in other ways. Pollen supports LaTeX as a backend, so that's a way to consider.
- valarauko 7y agoHow's the support for tables? IIRC there wasn't a single method to write tables that rendered in both Word doc files and pdfs. If I wrote the text in markdown and the table in HTML, it rendered fine in Word but not in pdfs, while the opposite was true for latex tables. I didn't try the different markdown flavours that natively support tables, like MultiMarkdown or github. In that respect, would something like asciidoc work better as a common source file?