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For all ye complaining about LaTeX being hard to use: use pandoc. Pandoc can convert your standard markdown/asciidoc file to many different formats. And, you ca
by vulcan01 6y ago
For all ye complaining about LaTeX being hard to use: use pandoc. Pandoc can convert your standard markdown/asciidoc file to many different formats. And, you can embed LaTeX inside, giving you both flexibility and ease of use.
https://pandoc.org https://pandoc.org
- dceddia 6y agoYep, pandoc is great! I used it to write a technical book. I wrote the text in standard markdown and used pandoc to convert to PDF and ePub, with MOBI handled separately (by Calibre). That plus a handful of ruby scripts to do some markdown transformations worked out pretty well.
- the_svd_doctor 6y agoPandoc is A.MA.ZING. Can’t believe I didn’t know about this for so long.
- globular-toast 6y agoOrg-mode can also be exported directly to LaTeX amongst other things. I like pandoc for the times I must deliver a word doc, but org-mode is superior for LaTeX.
- hatmatrix 6y agoIf you're using emacs, might as well use AUCTeX - if you're writing for LaTeX, it has all the keybindings and you skip and extra export step. With org-mode you have to keep using narrow-to-region to get all the syntax highlighting and keybindings for complex expressions. Having said that, org-mode/org-babel is useful when writing for both HTML and LaTeX export.
- globular-toast 6y agoI wrote my PhD thesis using AucTeX and if an org-mode document evolves to something that is definitely going to typeset then I'll convert to tex one last time and switch to AucTeX. Org-mode is great for starting random documents with no specific publication target. I might end up typesetting it, or maybe turn it into a web page/static site, or might just leave it as text for my own benefit.