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Re: Pandoc

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Post by tekknolagi »

dr_coffee wrote: post #18
Schiphol wrote: post #16

I do all of my academic writing in pandoc. As compared to LaTeX this means no boilerplate (yet you can still use full LaTeX syntax for equations and the like) and, if the publisher 'needs' a Word file, you are one click away from providing it. All with plain text files that you can put under version control, get meaningful diffs, etc. It's just great.

What's your workflow for inserting and managing references

Not OP, but I used `+citations` and `pandoc-citeproc` along with a bibtex file that I managed by hand for https://bernsteinbear.com/dat-paper/ (a small senior project paper). It worked pretty well for me.

Re: Pandoc

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Post by ryanmarsh »

dr_coffee wrote: post #18
Schiphol wrote: post #16

I do all of my academic writing in pandoc. As compared to LaTeX this means no boilerplate (yet you can still use full LaTeX syntax for equations and the like) and, if the publisher 'needs' a Word file, you are one click away from providing it. All with plain text files that you can put under version control, get meaningful diffs, etc. It's just great.

What's your workflow for inserting and managing references

I use pandoc-crossref.

Re: Pandoc

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Post by psychometry »

koolba wrote: post #11

My favorite pandoc hack is using it to convert word docs into markdown which can then be diffed similar to source code. Works great for legal redlining.

Does it come up with the right semantic content for lists and tables?

Re: Pandoc

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Post by icc97 »

Schiphol wrote: post #16

I do all of my academic writing in pandoc. As compared to LaTeX this means no boilerplate (yet you can still use full LaTeX syntax for equations and the like) and, if the publisher 'needs' a Word file, you are one click away from providing it. All with plain text files that you can put under version control, get meaningful diffs, etc. It's just great.

Sorry to be pedantic - but I didn't think that 'pandoc' was an actual document format purely a tool for converting between formats. Do you mean that you do your writing in kind of a 'pandoc flavoured' markdown? [0]

[0]: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#pandocs-markdown

Re: Pandoc

#45

Post by caconym_ »

I write fiction as a hobby, I do it in markdown and use Pandoc to turn it into epub files with a custom CSS. It works great. Thanks Pandoc!

Re: Pandoc

#46

Post by lucb1e »

flatline wrote: post #26
koolba wrote: post #11

My favorite pandoc hack is using it to convert word docs into markdown which can then be diffed similar to source code. Works great for legal redlining.

Do Word’s native diff features not work for you?

Can you diff two Word docs with Word? Afaik you can only hit the "track changes" button, which doesn't help if you got a new version of a document from someone else.

Re: Pandoc

#47

Post by canhascodez »

disqard wrote: post #23

I like pandoc. I've been using Typora [1] for all of my writing, and it's decent, but a little slow. What editor do HN folks use? I wonder if there's a leaner editor out there with an equally nice distraction-free editing interface. Thanks in advance! [1] https://typora.io/

Asking what editor HN uses is a pretty loaded question, but it looks like there's a couple neo/vim plugins for live markdown preview. This one[0] says it can use pandoc as a backend. I'm pretty sure that emacs offers something similar, and org-mode may be worth consideration all on its own. I hear spacemacs and spaceneovim are nice.

  [0] https://github.com/euclio/vim-markdown-composer

Re: Pandoc

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Post by clebio »

caconym_ wrote: post #45

I write fiction as a hobby, I do it in markdown and use Pandoc to turn it into epub files with a custom CSS. It works great. Thanks Pandoc!

Is the CSS derived from the markdown, or you supplement MD to HTML with custom CSS? Definitely curious to know!

Re: Pandoc

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Post by raws »

lucb1e wrote: post #46
flatline wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do Word’s native diff features not work for you?

Can you diff two Word docs with Word? Afaik you can only hit the "track changes" button, which doesn't help if you got a new version of a document from someone else.

Completely new to this: so you're highlighting the differences between two documents in word? say 2 terms of service 1 old and 1 new?
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