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Alternative: Write it in markdown/commonmark (possibly with an extension for tables a la knitr). Pick your favorite text editor and just type away merrily. Us
by zzleeper 12y ago
Alternative:
Write it in markdown/commonmark (possibly with an extension for tables a la knitr).
Pick your favorite text editor and just type away merrily. Use latex ($\gamma$) when you want formulas.
Then compile it to PDF with pandoc (which will deal with the intermediate latex step). Then, resist the urge to endlessly play with the formatting and just work on the simple markdown text.
- jumpwah 12y agoDoes pandoc support commonmark?
- walrus 12y agoI don't think it currently does, but it almost certainly will in the future. The primary author of Pandoc is the primary author of CommonMark.
- jumpwah 12y agoYes, I've been wanting to ask John for quite a while now about it, just always kept forgetting. The reason I doubted is because there's already pandoc-markdown... Has he stated anything about the future between pandoc and commonmark? I imagine support for commonmark is likely, but is pandoc-flavoured markdown then doomed? (I don't know how similar commonmark is to pandoc-markdown, but when I checked out commonmark at an early stage, it did handle lists differently, so I have reason to believe there would be more differences. [But I actually prefer how commonmark handles lists though.])