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mikhailklassen / research-diary-project

Use TeX/LaTeX to keep a research diary on your UNIX/Linux system, with useful tools and scripts to simplify the process.
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Markdown support for log #1

Closed bwkeller closed 12 years ago

bwkeller commented 12 years ago

We're scientists, we can handle a little LaTeX. But I find writing things out in TeX syntax results in a larger fraction of my time spent typing commands and things versus just typing out my thoughts. In other words, the LaTeX is getting in the way of my flow. Ultimately, I think we are stuck with LaTeX for the final pre-compile format if we want to have reasonable figure and math support. But I was thinking it would be neat if we could type up our notes in the excellent markdown. We could then either write a converter for latex, or just grab some pre-existing code and hack it in. What do you think of that idea?

bwkeller commented 12 years ago

I forgot, Markdown has the additional feature of being human-readable pre-compile.

bwkeller commented 12 years ago

Well, this is actually fixed in the Lanyon branch.