Re:Madoko – Write full-blown academic articles in Markdown
by suncanon on Thursday September 03, 2015 @01:28PM
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Even if your journal accepts PDFs, michaelmior's comment raises an important issue that a LaTeX style template cannot be imported into most (or all?) of these Markdown editors. This would be a great feature to add, IMO!
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Re:Madoko – Write full-blown academic articles in Markdown
by cls59 on Thursday September 03, 2015 @01:34PM
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The issue with that is that a LaTeX template is turing-complete. Doing a meaningful import of arbitrary journal styles without re-implementing TeX is a very, very, very hard problem.
Re:Madoko – Write full-blown academic articles in Markdown
by yid on Thursday September 03, 2015 @01:42PM
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> Even if your journal accepts PDFs, michaelmior's comment raises an important issue that a LaTeX style template cannot be imported into most (or all?) of these Markdown editors.
Perhaps it would be easier to go the other way -- to modify a Markdown parser to output a simple subset of Latex that can fit into most common academic templates.