phd_thesis_markdown VS LinuxConfigs

This is the reason I've never liked LaTeX from a data point view. It's made to be printed out or get to look beautiful on a PDF but was never designed to get you to a HTML file or a Word file.

I've written my thesis in Markdown in the past because of this (best for humans) which can be easily transformed to HTML, Word, PDF and even LaTeX https://github.com/tompollard/phd_thesis_markdown

And I think that XML is the best format for machines.

See, for example, this: https://github.com/tompollard/phd_thesis_markdown

Markdown for academic papers. We have this https://github.com/tompollard/phd_thesis_markdown (which is the best template I know and on a personal note I've written my thesis with that too) but the whole ecosystem can be still improved.

FWIW, I recently learned that it is also possible to produce nice PDF papers with GNU roff (groff), have a look at this example: https://github.com/SudarsonNantha/LinuxConfigs/blob/master/....

My code is a bit convoluted and poorly documented, but here are the files for something I was working on: https://github.com/SudarsonNantha/LinuxConfigs/blob/8f595ca56cfa8ef8455fd4f8fde0245f6b0952a5/.config/groff/Examples/paper/paper.pdf

This is the exact line of code I have in one of my documents: \X'pdf: pdfpic Section1.pdf -L 2i'\h'2.8i'\X'pdf: pdfpic Section2.pdf -L 2i'

I have some old examples if you want to check them out. And a very badly made video explaining it haha.

Normal Groff Resume

I've uploaded the files on my Github. You should open the mn-example.ms file. The output PDF is mn-example.pdf.

I'm a mechanical engineering student who's taken a liking to Groff. I couldn't find any examples of scientific papers or thesis' using Groff on the internet, so I decided to make my own.

I've been using Groff for a couple of months now, and I wanted to share my Groff workflow with you guys. Hopefully, it will help someone write technical papers or papers to rival ones created using Latex. Here is look at the PDF output of my template file with working PDF links.