Why and How I Wrote My Academic Book in Plain Text

Re:Why and How I Wrote My Academic Book in Plain Text by wetmore on Friday April 17, 2015 @02:08PM (#9396089)

I really like how this guy clearly knows his way around computers (poke around his site a bit, like the colophon[1]) but his academic interests are in history. It's great to see hacking interests and skills in someone working in a different field; I think it's important that these skills don't remain solely in their usual domain.

http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/colophon.html

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Re:Why and How I Wrote My Academic Book in Plain Text by wcaleb on Friday April 17, 2015 @02:17PM (#9396134)

Thanks! Important to note that writing my book in Markdown, and having to learn to use the command line for Pandoc, is what started me down the path to learning more programming.

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