Ask HN: Markdown/reStructuredText to write a PhD thesis in STEM fields?

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  • thesisdown

    An updated R Markdown thesis template using the bookdown package

  • Look at Thesisdown[0] which is a modified bookdown[1] template for a thesis. It’s based on R Markdown[2], so you get R (or other programming languages) in your document that is run when the document is processed.

    The authors of R Markdown/Bookdown are working on a newer tool, Quarto[3].

    [0] https://github.com/ismayc/thesisdown

  • rmarkdown

    Dynamic Documents for R

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    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • Zettlr

    Your One-Stop Publication Workbench

  • I use Zettlr (https://www.zettlr.com) for all my academic writing. It's a Markdown editor that also supports Latex and exports to various file formats including Latex PDF using pandoc.

    You can add custom Latex templates (https://docs.zettlr.com/de/academic/custom-templates/) and then compile to PDF. I'm also using Zotero as my citation engine that is supported natively by Zettlr.

    Can only recommend it.

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