#Nvalt pandoc preview code

I'm going to try and grab citations straight from Zotero. Pandoc will auto-gen a table of contents from the Markdown headers. I'm going on a hunch but I have the feeling that this will work out ok. Strangely enough though for the current paper I have to write (> 20,000 but < 40,000 words) I have decided to see how far I can get with Markdown, Pandoc, and a lightweight custom pipeline. It was invaluable in teaching me about a large part of the document processing ecosystem I knew nothing about and made me appreciate that WYSIWYG was a step backwards to some degree. I taught myself LaTeX to be able to write academic papers. Pushing it off to one side is how I cope -) LaTeX gives a semi-nice veneer, but it still isn't optimal. As much as I love TeX, it really does suck compared to any modern macro language. When I do need precise typesetting, TeX/LaTeX is what I go for, but even then I would rather write in a markdown style DSL and translate to TeX which I can output. So I suppose to sum up, since I don't need precise typesetting in most of my documents, Markdown is 'good enough' and it is easier to type. Doing that with TeX macros would have worn my fingers off. This was because I was doing a lot of writing with very weird formatting (non-standard output of furigana in Japanese where I displayed both the Chinese characters, the Japanese reading of the characters, and the romanization of that reading). What's interesting is that the last time I used LaTeX, I actually wrote my own markup language (similar to markdown) and had a build step that would convert it to LaTeX. I'm also one of the crazy people who writes his own styles in TeX -) Once I have a good portion of the document written (sometimes all of it), then I will start looking at presentation. Typesetting is a completely different process for me. When I am writing, I specifically don't care about (and would rather not have) anything showing me what the final output is going to look like. I'm afraid, though, that I'm not a good fit for overleaf as I am already invested in the concept of splitting composition from presentation. If I need to typeset something, I will go back to TeX/LaTeX.

#Nvalt pandoc preview code

It produces readable HTML output with code syntax highlighting. I'm more interested in the text editor representation.ДЇor the types of documents I write (about software, very rarely doing any math) Markdown's syntax is just simpler and quicker. To turn your question upside down, the reason I don't use TeX and LaTeX any more (despite being quite invested in it) is that I rarely care about the quality of output any more. However, I barely use it any more and write most documents in Markdown. I've been using TeX even before LaTeX was available. And not having to pair up open/close tags makes it much lighter-weight than HTML. While LaTeX is actually pretty lightweight for prose (once I grokked it, surprisingly so), Markdown's lighter. Online implementations have various annoying omissions - Reddit doesn't support images or subscripts, Ello lacks blockquotes. With a full-featured Markdown parser though, there's little that cannot be accomplished, short of equations. I'm usually authoring into HTM or PDF, and if necessary, I'll generate HTML or LaTeX and finish up with either for detail work. What's great about Markdown is that it's close to a 99% solution.

I also know HTML and LaTeX (having picked up the latter fairly recently), and have used a few other markup languages (nroff/groff, DocBook, etc.). I've used vi/vim since the late 1980s, it's drilled into my finger-memory (I'm composing it now in an external editor). Sites _without_ Markdown (such as HN) drive me nuts as I'm always tossing in Markdown code and realising (after the edit window's expired) that I effed up. It's my preferred markup language for online sites (Reddit, StackExchange, Elllo), and the results with only modest site styling are quite impressive (Ello looks _markedly_ better with modified CSS).