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Although not interactive, I've created a video series that shows advanced usage of Markdown. Namely R, external variables, diagrams, math, annotations, and a di

Although not interactive, I've created a video series that shows advanced usage of Markdown. Namely R, external variables, diagrams, math, annotations, and a different approach to metadata: * https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9KWzPIoWZMKu_ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9... Tutorial 4 shows basic Markdown: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNbGSiRzx-0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNbGSiRzx-0 The top-right of each video shows keyboard and mouse clicks to help follow along.[1] My desktop text editor, KeenWrite[2], is used in the tutorials. [1]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/kmcaster https://github.com/DaveJarvis/kmcaster [2]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite

MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Which Markdown variant would you consider to be the most feature-rich, in terms of graphs, variables, conditionals, transclusion, print, all that jazz?
- thangalin 3y ago
  R Markdown using pandoc and knitr. Initially, I had developed shell scripts to run them alongside YAML metadata[1]. I developed KeenWrite to replace those scripts opting for flexmark-java, which implements the CommonMark standard, and is highly compatible with pandoc. If your goal is to write a little bit of prose and do lots of data analysis, plots, graphs, etc., then use Jupyter Notebooks. If you plan to write a lot of prose with images, graphs, and plots thrown in, use KeenWrite. [1]: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/05/22/typesetting-markdown-part-1/ https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/05/22/typesetting-markdow...
  - MilStdJunkie 3y ago
    That's super interesting, thank you for the content and for the reply! I'm an Asciidoc (+GitLab/VSC/Antora) user and a Markdown, eh, I guess you would say "researcher"[1], but I'm not jingoistic about it. I realize the Markdown tool ecosystem is an order of magnitude larger. [1] Never having used it in production, R Markdown was one of the "final three" markdown candidates for a project, but we didn't go that way.

MilStdJunkie 3y ago

Which Markdown variant would you consider to be the most feature-rich, in terms of graphs, variables, conditionals, transclusion, print, all that jazz?

thangalin 3y ago
R Markdown using pandoc and knitr. Initially, I had developed shell scripts to run them alongside YAML metadata[1]. I developed KeenWrite to replace those scripts opting for flexmark-java, which implements the CommonMark standard, and is highly compatible with pandoc. If your goal is to write a little bit of prose and do lots of data analysis, plots, graphs, etc., then use Jupyter Notebooks. If you plan to write a lot of prose with images, graphs, and plots thrown in, use KeenWrite. [1]: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/05/22/typesetting-markdown-part-1/ https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/05/22/typesetting-markdow...
- MilStdJunkie 3y ago
  That's super interesting, thank you for the content and for the reply! I'm an Asciidoc (+GitLab/VSC/Antora) user and a Markdown, eh, I guess you would say "researcher"[1], but I'm not jingoistic about it. I realize the Markdown tool ecosystem is an order of magnitude larger. [1] Never having used it in production, R Markdown was one of the "final three" markdown candidates for a project, but we didn't go that way.