My blog dives into Markdown, Pandoc, R, bash, and the ConTeXt typesetting engine. https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/ https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/ Part 8 (coming

My blog dives into Markdown, Pandoc, R, bash, and the ConTeXt typesetting engine. https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/ https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/ Part 8 (coming soon!) uses annotated Markdown to reproduce a famous poem (original is on the left): https://i.imgur.com/idV1mTM.png https://i.imgur.com/idV1mTM.png The text of the poem is written in Pandoc-flavoured Markdown: ::: poem Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great, And would suffice. ::: > Markdown is good for generating HTML and terrible for making PDFs.² Yes, Pandoc is essential for transforming Markdown into beautiful PDF files. Tooting my own horn a little more, my illustrated photobook, Impacts, is written almost entirely in pure Markdown, with a few annotations for plots and spectra: https://impacts.to/preview.html https://impacts.to/preview.html Tangentially related, what would be amazing is a robust text editor that allows injection of interpolated string variables from various data sources and structured data formats. Here's an architecture diagram to clarify: https://i.imgur.com/8IMpAkN.png https://i.imgur.com/8IMpAkN.png My open-source editor, Scrivenvar (https://github.com/DaveJarvis/scrivenvar https://github.com/DaveJarvis/scrivenvar), implements that architecture to some extent.