I have only sparingly used Markdown when writing, but after a lot of research, I’ve come up with this workflow: Sublime Text 3 Mendeley the tufte-latex template pandoc. Publishing to the web is much easier and won’t be covered herein. In most scenarios, the purpose is to have a source Markdown text and convert to a presentation-ready PDF. WordPress, the most popular web publishing platform, supports it as well.Ī Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions.Ī promising group project to keep an eye on, is CommonMark, which works towards the standardization of the language’s syntax and specs. It became further popular with GitHub and the Stack Exchange Q&A network adopting it for all descriptions and comments.

Markdown was created in 2004 by John Gruber as a quick way to generate HTML code without coding, and quickly gained popularity among web designers. Neither needs to replace the other, for their purpose is different. The first was designed for PDF and other set-in-stone formats yet the latter arose from the continuous text flow of the web. txt formatted with Markdown, can be the source document of any number of Word documents, decent-looking PDFs, web pages and eBooks.įor readers familiar with L aT eX, all this may seem too simplistic, yet that is exactly the concept behind Markdown. Your documents are platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS, and Android) agnostic and software (MS Word, Libreoffice, Notepad) independent, which makes it easier to sync your files or use them on the web (WordPress etc) without distorted looks.

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