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This anonymous, undated article was written by me, yesterday. The strong backwards compatibility of LaTeX(2e) [0] make it so that the date is not especially rel

This anonymous, undated article was written by me, yesterday. The strong backwards compatibility of LaTeX(2e) [0] make it so that the date is not especially relevant (since I'm using primitives); in any case my point was pedagogical, in the sense of diving into the operational mechanisms of (La)TeX to develop a better mental model of what's going on. And while Pandoc is very nice, if you're in academia none of your alternatives are viable, since LaTeX is a de facto standard for most journals. Fun fact: the article was written in Markdown, with some front matter for metadata! [0] https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/247524/do-i-risk-breaking-documents-by-updating-my-tex-distribution https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/247524/do-i-risk-bre...

leephillips 4y ago
I certainly appreciate the pedagogical purpose; what you did there goes beyond any pure TeX programming I’ve ever tried to do. My suggestion was to use Pandoc to create a LaTeX document. You can easily tell it to use RevTeX or any style required by a journal. The only friction with my approach is when you need to work with coauthors or editors on revisions. EDIT: I think I caused some confusion due to my sloppiness. I should have written “constrained to only writing in LaTeX”.
behnamoh 4y ago
How did you do emojis in pandoc? I’ve had a hard time writing them in md files and converting them to pdf using pandoc
- leephillips 4y ago
  Pandoc uses LaTeX to make the PDF, so you have to set up LaTeX somehow to be able to handle the emoji. I use “normal” Unicode in md source all the time, but not emoji, so, sorry, I don’t know what to do.
Schiphol 4y ago
I am in academia and I do all of my writing in pandoc. I simply submit the .tex file that pandoc outputs if and when the manuscript is accepted. (I liked and learned a lot from your post, just wanted to prevent a possible misunderstanding about the usefulness of pandoc for academic writing).

leephillips 4y ago

I certainly appreciate the pedagogical purpose; what you did there goes beyond any pure TeX programming I’ve ever tried to do. My suggestion was to use Pandoc to create a LaTeX document. You can easily tell it to use RevTeX or any style required by a journal. The only friction with my approach is when you need to work with coauthors or editors on revisions. EDIT: I think I caused some confusion due to my sloppiness. I should have written “constrained to only writing in LaTeX”.

behnamoh 4y ago

How did you do emojis in pandoc? I’ve had a hard time writing them in md files and converting them to pdf using pandoc

leephillips 4y ago
Pandoc uses LaTeX to make the PDF, so you have to set up LaTeX somehow to be able to handle the emoji. I use “normal” Unicode in md source all the time, but not emoji, so, sorry, I don’t know what to do.

Schiphol 4y ago

I am in academia and I do all of my writing in pandoc. I simply submit the .tex file that pandoc outputs if and when the manuscript is accepted. (I liked and learned a lot from your post, just wanted to prevent a possible misunderstanding about the usefulness of pandoc for academic writing).