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On more than one occasion I have started writing a paper draft in Sublime + Markdown because the scaffolding of LaTeX felt too distracting. Eventually you need
by civilized 4y ago
On more than one occasion I have started writing a paper draft in Sublime + Markdown because the scaffolding of LaTeX felt too distracting.
Eventually you need to actually build the real document though.
- Bootvis 4y agoExport from Emacs org mode to LaTeX. org mode offers plenty of flexibility to tweak the final output and lets you focus on writing. Edit: and creating tables in org mode is _so_ much better than in plain LaTeX. If you find yourself manually working on tables, the Emacs + org mode combo is worth investing time in.
- macintux 4y agoDiscovering the table support in org-mode was huge for me, wish I’d known about it decades ago.
- anthk 4y agoYou may like Texmacs.
- juujian 4y agoWhat's the missing feature that has your going back to latex? I switched to markdown and sublime a while ago. No more sideways tables, true. But even for that there is a workaround. And much less distraction in return.
- civilized 4y agoI've just worked with LaTeX for a long time and know all the tricks to make it do exactly what I want. Equations, figures, tables, cross-references... I can get it all to work on the page. And some of my collaborators still print things out, so using the tricks to get a good-looking PDF is still worth the trouble to me. When I want to get my rough, fluid thoughts onto a page, it's going to be easiest in Markdown + Sublime. But once the story and structure is basically there, the final product is easiest to achieve in LaTeX.