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Interested in this! Recently wrote a thesis. Wanted to use markdown, but that had too many limitations. After learning and using LaTeX for a bit I got used to
by bryanhogan 1y ago
Interested in this! Recently wrote a thesis. Wanted to use markdown, but that had too many limitations.
After learning and using LaTeX for a bit I got used to it, but the overall experience of setting it up and its usability leaves a lot of room for improvements. But on the other hand it's established in academic writing.
Do hope to see something based on markdown be able to replace LaTeX in the future.
- ants_everywhere 1y agoWith Emacs and AUCTeX and a few macros for tab completion I could generally transcribe a math lecture in real time. If you're using completion then the verbosity isn't a downside and in fact helps add structure for automation. The main drawback for writing something like a thesis is that LaTeX not great to outline in. I think for my thesis I ended up doing initial drafts in org-mode and exporting into LaTeX to view it. Then once the overall structure took shape I edited the LaTeX directly. Otherwise you end up having to embed LaTeX markup in your markdown doc because markdown is underspecified compared to TeX.
- Onawa 1y agoQuarto is probably what you're looking for. It's what we've been using for scientific publications in gov science research labs the past couple of years. Can output to LaTeX and incorporate templates and such.