A Scholarly Markdown

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Post by droque » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 10:01 PM UTC

A Scholarly Markdown
scholarlymarkdown.com

Re: A Scholarly Markdown

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Post by 2mur » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 10:45 PM UTC

Why not asciidoc?

Re: A Scholarly Markdown

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Post by 0942v8653 » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 10:45 PM UTC

Looks like an interesting project. I may be missing something, but I think in terms of math especially it would be hard to use Markdown instead of something more robust like LaTeX which supports proper mathematical notation.

Edit: yes, I was missing something. Scholdoc supports MathJax (which has browser, Office, and LaTeX support).

Small issue: The title isn't showing up in Firefox (or Chrome) because there are two title elements and the first one is blank.

Re: A Scholarly Markdown

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Post by JetSpiegel » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 10:52 PM UTC

Why? This really feels like cramming a square peg into a round hole. Anytime anyone wants something more complex than simply lightly formatted text they will have to use other tool (LaTeX), so why not just use LaTeX in the first place?

Re: A Scholarly Markdown

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Post by _-_-_-_ » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 10:54 PM UTC

I'm still skimming the documentation so I apologize if the answer is obvious, but does anyone know offhand why this is implemented as a fork of Pandoc? Pandoc already has extended markdown features and the creator of pandoc is very much an academic (http://johnmacfarlane.net/), so is there are a reason why these contributions aren't part of pandoc proper?

Re: A Scholarly Markdown

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Post by stared » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 10:55 PM UTC

This thing is certainly needed (vide this discussion: https://hackpad.com/New-scientific-markup-language-utAjFcYuv...), but what would be really convincing is examples (or I am missing them?).

As a side note, a lot of Markdown + LaTeX + Code can be done in IPython Notebook. (Though, there are some things absent, like referencing citations or other equations).

Re: A Scholarly Markdown

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Post by smilekzs » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 11:04 PM UTC

Around 2 years ago I wrote a patch for chjj/marked that supports MathJax. Despite heated discussion, author never noticed and it wasn't merged. Just a glance at how fragmented this markdown world has become.

Re: A Scholarly Markdown

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Post by ciroduran » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 11:06 PM UTC

It seems that Markdown is starting to get a lot of disgregated reference implementations. Some months ago some important Markdown users were behind CommonMark (http://commonmark.org/). I'd think that it would be best to join this conversation rather than splintering Markdown even more.

Re: A Scholarly Markdown

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Post by kazagistar » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 11:12 PM UTC

_-_-_-_ wrote: post #5

I'm still skimming the documentation so I apologize if the answer is obvious, but does anyone know offhand why this is implemented as a fork of Pandoc? Pandoc already has extended markdown features and the creator of pandoc is very much an academic ( http://johnmacfarlane.net/ ), so is there are a reason why these contributions aren't part of pandoc proper?

This was my first thought as well. Pandoc has a rather excellent infrastructure in place to let you extend and build on it, so if you instead choose to fork, there better be a good reason...

Re: A Scholarly Markdown

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Post by rylee » Sat, Mar 14, 2015, 11:23 PM UTC

ciroduran wrote: post #8

It seems that Markdown is starting to get a lot of disgregated reference implementations. Some months ago some important Markdown users were behind CommonMark ( http://commonmark.org/ ). I'd think that it would be best to join this conversation rather than splintering Markdown even more.

Wow, I've never seen CommonMark -- hope that comes into common use over everything else!