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I wrote pretty much all my university work in Markdown with inline Latex, using Pandoc to generate a pdf. I'm sure there are things you can do in "pure" latex t
by snet0 3y ago
I wrote pretty much all my university work in Markdown with inline Latex, using Pandoc to generate a pdf. I'm sure there are things you can do in "pure" latex that you can't do this way, but for most normal cases, it's so much easier. You just use the simple Markdown syntax for basic text formatting, and then can use the power of Latex when you need to display mathematics, graphs, tables or similar.
- khofstadter 3y agoMe too :-) It was a steep learning curve but worth it. I used it 'within' VSC.
- airstrike 3y agoI'm doing that too... did you render against a template file in the end? I also went ahead and set up my root "notes" folder to be served with mkdocs so I can easily browse them, and just render a PDF when I must submit some file to a third party
- snet0 3y agoI used a vim template plugin (I believe called vim-templates, believe it or not) to get some YAML and formatting boilerplate, and then I think I rendered against the default templates. I do remember having to adjust the defaults for some reports, though.
- ngruhn 3y agodamn, I'll try that
- dillydogg 3y agoI do the same thing, except using org mode instead of markdown. I've really come to love org mode for writing.
- hyperhopper 3y agoOrg mode is amazing. The only problem with org mode is that more people/tools aren't using org mode.
- sciolist 3y agoI do something similar for my notes, but instead converting to HTML! (e.g. https://cswartout.com/notes/cse422.html https://cswartout.com/notes/cse422.html) I keep my notes as markdown in a repo, then "build" them onto a web server after pushing. I've found it easy to write and always accessible, which is nice.
- dredmorbius 3y agoOT, you're the second sciolist I've found online. See: <https://www.etymonline.com/columns/post/bio https://www.etymonline.com/columns/post/bio> (Bottom of page.)