Here's my take on using Markdown for technical writing: https://keenwrite.com/docs/user-manual.pdf The user manual source code is also available. Thoughts?
Here's my take on using Markdown for technical writing:
Nice to see your continued work on this. I forget if I asked this in the past but: have you done any outreach to universities, PhDs and graduate students? Seems like they would love this and have...
Nice to see your continued work on this. I forget if I asked this in the past but: have you done any outreach to universities, PhDs and graduate students? Seems like they would love this and have a nice feedback loop of feature requests and usage. I could imagine Markdown being adopted very quickly by word of mouth. But I guess a major speed bump is the journals generally require the original source document in LaTeX?
That's a good idea. Yes, that's an unfortunate situation. Also, custom math-heavy documents tend to be a lot more dependent on LaTeX features than what Markdown can provide. Take sub-figures and...
I forget if I asked this in the past but: have you done any outreach to universities, PhDs and graduate students?
That's a good idea.
the journals generally require the original source document in LaTeX
Yes, that's an unfortunate situation. Also, custom math-heavy documents tend to be a lot more dependent on LaTeX features than what Markdown can provide. Take sub-figures and sub-equations for example. While these could be marked up with ::: subfigure ... ::: and ::: subequation ... :::, it'd still take elbow grease to percolate the typesetting behaviour through to ConTeXt.
Still, for non-math-intensive papers not slated for LaTeX-mandated journals, I think you're spot on that many students would like it. I'll poke around. If you have ideas where to start, do let me know.
Here's my take on using Markdown for technical writing:
https://keenwrite.com/docs/user-manual.pdf
The user manual source code is also available.
Thoughts?
Nice to see your continued work on this. I forget if I asked this in the past but: have you done any outreach to universities, PhDs and graduate students? Seems like they would love this and have a nice feedback loop of feature requests and usage. I could imagine Markdown being adopted very quickly by word of mouth. But I guess a major speed bump is the journals generally require the original source document in LaTeX?
That's a good idea.
Yes, that's an unfortunate situation. Also, custom math-heavy documents tend to be a lot more dependent on LaTeX features than what Markdown can provide. Take sub-figures and sub-equations for example. While these could be marked up with
::: subfigure ... :::and::: subequation ... :::, it'd still take elbow grease to percolate the typesetting behaviour through to ConTeXt.Still, for non-math-intensive papers not slated for LaTeX-mandated journals, I think you're spot on that many students would like it. I'll poke around. If you have ideas where to start, do let me know.