Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX

Re:Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX by URSpider94 on Saturday February 17, 2018 @10:23PM (#16404269)

If you haven’t tried it yet, I encourage you to give Markdown + Pandoc a try for printed docs. Pandoc can take a LaTeX template and flow Markdown into it. I find Markdown formatting simpler to remember and execute than LaTeX, and there are a huge number of editors and live-preview apps that will let you validate your Markdown as you write. A few keystrokes, and you get a beautiful PDF document, flawlessly typeset in Computer Modern - and with a few more keystrokes, you can have an HTML page with exactly the same content.

There is even a company, LeanPub, that is based on generating paper and e-books direct from Markdown.

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Re:Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX by dredmorbius on Sunday February 18, 2018 @01:10AM (#16404729)

Makefiles address that.

     make html pdf

This one has many OSXisms & wants some homebrew bits, but may give you a starting point:

https://pastebin.com/raw/H43MKTCq

Referenced utility script:

https://pastebin.com/raw/J6quT7Mj

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Re:Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX by URSpider94 on Sunday February 18, 2018 @02:57AM (#16404975)

Yup, having a default Markdown doc project that you clone is a big help. That way, you can include a Makefile, as well as embed LaTeX header info.

For cases where you really need to share your doc with coworkers in an editable form, you can even define an MS Word target...

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Re:Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX by dredmorbius on Sunday February 18, 2018 @08:59PM (#16410217)

That's among the targets here.

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