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AguaClara / aguaclara_research

a python package containing research tools for AguaClara
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creating a pdf of markdown files #12

Closed monroews closed 6 years ago

monroews commented 6 years ago

Could you provide a method to create a pdf from a markdown file that shows nicely formatted equations? The idea is to have a way for students to submit their assignments in a nicely formatted way. I know there was discussion of this, but I can't find the documentation of how to do this. I'll need to link to that documentation (once it exists) from the course websites where I define assignments.

fletchapin commented 6 years ago

@monroews I'm looking into this now and our current sync-settings have a package which converts from markdown to PDF which can be done using ctrl + shift + c.

However, that option doesn't format LaTeX equations nicely, so I'm looking into other alternatives and when I find the easiest one that works well I can put a short document together outlining how to do the conversion.

eak24 commented 6 years ago

I'm exploring using markdown-preview-enhanced instead of markdown-preview-plus. They appear to be competing markdown packages. MPE supports directly exporting the PDF AND has the same keybindings as MPP. Just right click on the preview and select "open in browser" - then just print to PDF from the browser.

eak24 commented 6 years ago

I've updated the sync settings to reflect this. So if you fork again, you'll pull the right packages.

fletchapin commented 6 years ago

Added the tutorial to the wiki page of the aguaclara_tutorial repo.