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You can get really far today with Pandoc Markdown, which has many benefits over LaTeX. So, just wait until a generation has grown up with Markdown as a univers
by JohnKemeny 3y ago
You can get really far today with Pandoc Markdown, which has many benefits over LaTeX. So, just wait until a generation has grown up with Markdown as a universal text language. Indeed, with the exception of the journal's template, you can write a full paper in Pandoc Markdown and nobody would spot the difference.
- throw_pm23 3y agoCan you link a scientific article or book pdf that was written in Markdown?
- esafak 3y agohttps://quarto.org/docs/gallery/#books https://quarto.org/docs/gallery/#books
- __mharrison__ 3y agoThe PDFs of my recent books, Effective XGBoost, and Learning Python for Data were created using markdown and Pandoc (somewhere along the way). I'm in the middle of doing the second edition of Effective Pandas, moving it from rst based tooling to markdown/Pandoc.
- Ar-Curunir 3y agotbqh, any serious paper writing requires formatting considerations that Markdown cannot express. Like, if you care at all about how your paper looks, Markdown is insufficient.
- contravariant 3y agoI think with pandoc there's very little you can't do, but I never tested it to its limits. Nowadays I only use LaTeX if I really need the nitty gritty formatting capabilities, at which point adding an extra layer of indirection is pointless.
- IshKebab 3y agoYou can get quite far... but really if you're writing a big technical document with a Markdown style format you definitely want Asciidoc, not Markdown.
- behnamoh 3y agoI tried md for a while but inevitably ended up having to incorporate latex in the document for formatting (either through md or pandoc). at that point, you might as well use latex.