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phd_thesis_markdown
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ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format
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.
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Confused about the tools available to me. Thesis writing in Markdown?
See, for example, this: https://github.com/tompollard/phd_thesis_markdown
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Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
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.
neatroff
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How would I compile a roff document?
I recommend sticking with Groff. There are other implementations of Troff—some older (Heirloom Doctools), some newer (Neatroff)—but most of the documents you'll encounter in the wild will have been written with Groff in mind.
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Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
Plan 9 troff might work! It works with utf8 out of the box[0], and while I haven't used it for complex math typesetting, there is a command (eqn [1]) that was developed for it. I'd recommend Ali Rudi's port (neatroff [2][3]) for a minimalist implementation. There's also Heirloom Documentation Tools [4] which is an implementation of *roff-and-friends that uses Knuth's paragraph-at-once algorithm (instead of the original line-wise one) for typesetting, plus some other interesting features.
The authors of eqn wrote a paper about it: "Typesetting Mathematics" by Brian Kernighan and Lorinda Cherry. Kernighan also wrote two manuals (one in 1976 with a revision in 1992, and one in 2007 with updates for the Plan 9 version). [5].
[0] utf8 was developed by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike during the creation of Plan9. The entire OS is compatible. Story here: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history
[1] http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/eqn
[2] https://github.com/aligrudi/neatroff
[3] PDF manual for neatroff: http://litcave.rudi.ir/neatroff.pdf
[4] https://n-t-roff.github.io/heirloom/doctools.html
[5] These (and more) can be found here: http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/troff.html
What are some alternatives?
asciidoctor-latex - :triangular_ruler: Add LaTeX features to AsciiDoc & convert AsciiDoc to LaTeX
notes - A zero dependency shell script that makes it really simple to manage your text notes.
tufte-markdown - Use markdown to write your handouts or books in Tufte style.
scrivomatic - A writing workflow using Scrivener's style system + Pandoc for output…
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
yet-another-speed-dial - a modern speed dial for chrome, edge and firefox
gpresent - Presentation macros for GNU roff (unofficial fork with patches and extensions)
hyperswarm - A distributed networking stack for connecting peers.
linux-surface - Linux Kernel for Surface Devices