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> overkill To write my hard sci-fi novel, I wrote a cross-platform Markdown editor so that I could use interpolated variables along with R code: https://keenw
by thangalin 29d ago
> overkill
To write my hard sci-fi novel, I wrote a cross-platform Markdown editor so that I could use interpolated variables along with R code:
https://keenwrite.com/screenshots.html https://keenwrite.com/screenshots.html
ConTeXt produces the PDF files. I also developed a few calculators to help confirm physics and other plot-related aspects:
https://autonoma.ca/calculators/ https://autonoma.ca/calculators/
- tapete1 28d agoDo you have somewhere an article or similar about the motivation behind this project, i.e. how did you went from "I write a novel" to "I need to write my own editor to write my novel"? That would be really interesting!
- thangalin 28d agoThe closest would be the Typesetting Markdown series, which centers around using interpolated strings as variables inside prose: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/05/22/typesetting-markdown-part-1/ https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/05/22/typesetting-markdow...