Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX

Re:Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX by tincholio on Sunday February 18, 2018 @05:04AM (#16405283)

I wrote mine in plain LaTeX, never had an issue with it. Regarding code, you can use the listings package (\lstincludelisting) to include source code files directly. I fail to see the interest in having a bastardized, not quite TeX, not quite MD file (unless you're using something like Org, of course, and using its other functionalities).

Regarding having unicode for the maths, how did you deal with symbols that needed scaling (brackets, integrals, etc.?) They may look simpler when seen as text, but they certainly won't render nicely as math...

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Re:Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX by black_knight on Sunday February 18, 2018 @06:58AM (#16405628)

I just make the symbols shortcuts for the commands. So for instance

∑_{0≤n≤k}n²

expands to

\sum_{0\le n\le k} n^2.

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Re:Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX by tincholio on Sunday February 18, 2018 @07:19AM (#16405693)

Do you have a library of these substitutions available? Sounds like it could be useful.

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Re:Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX by black_knight on Sunday February 18, 2018 @09:25AM (#16406194)

I just have this[0], which is a list of the substitutions. You can either make it a sty file, or just stuff it in the preamble, or template.

Some of these are suboptimal. But you can just change them, and make your own.

[0]: http://lpaste.net/362623

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Re:Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX by tincholio on Sunday February 18, 2018 @10:57AM (#16406609)

Thanks!

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