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When I was in the sciences, I used a LaTeX document as my labbook * Ability to share with colleagues - Easy to send pdfs or the raw LaTeX to others. * Able to
by MereInterest 6y ago
When I was in the sciences, I used a LaTeX document as my labbook
* Ability to share with colleagues - Easy to send pdfs or the raw LaTeX to others.
* Able to simply past in images - I had a folder with dated images, and a macro to insert a graph at the current location (better than floats for labbooks).
* Versioning - Each section had a date in it. Sequential versions were stored in git
* Tables - `\begin{tabular}`
* Code snippets - `\begin{lstlisting}`
* Links, tags, backlinks - `\ref{section_name}`
It could do pretty much anything. Though, you may have noticed that I omitted addressing your first bulletpoint of "simple formatting", as I am not able to keep a straight face while calling LaTeX "simple".
- privong 6y ago> It could do pretty much anything. Though, you may have noticed that I omitted addressing your first bulletpoint of "simple formatting", as I am not able to keep a straight face while calling LaTeX "simple". One possible way of harnessing the power of LaTeX while keeping a simple formatting would be to use use `pandoc` and pandoc-flavored markdown. That keeps the formatting simple, while also making it easy to include references, equations, etc. and easy output to LaTeX/PDF/etc.