JOjonpalmisc·Jan 8, 2022Submission
A package for converting and rendering Markdown documents in TeX
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:notebook_with_decorative_cover: A package for converting and rendering markdown documents in TeX
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:notebook_with_decorative_cover: A package for converting and rendering markdown documents in TeX
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If your only target from Markdown is LaTeX, I recommend the LaTeX markdown package which uses lua to parse and convert the input markdown: https://github.com/Witiko/markdown…
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| Dec 26 | 2021-12-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-27 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 27 | 2021-12-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 28 | 2021-12-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Jan 8 | 2022-01-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-09 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesIf your only target from Markdown is LaTeX, I recommend the LaTeX markdown package which uses lua to parse and convert the input markdown: https://github.com/Witiko/markdown
Pandoc shines when targetting multiple backends, like EPUB, HTML and LaTeX/PDF. But the LaTeX markdown package has one advantage when only targetting LaTeX, especially in academic settings: it translates everything to the LaTeX you'd expected. For example, citations are translated into biblatex calls, while pandoc generates all of the citations and the bibliography by itself, bypassing the style and behavior you and your professors might expect.
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