Switching to Markdown for scholarly article production

The Occasional Pamphlet 2014-08-29

Summary:

With few exceptions, scholars would be better off writing their papers in a lightweight markup format called Markdown, rather than using a word-processing program like Microsoft Word. This post explains why, and reveals a hidden agenda as well.1 Microsoft Word is not appropriate for scholarly article production …lightweight… “Old two pan balance” image from Nikodem […]

Link:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2014/08/29/switching-to-markdown-for-scholarly-article-production/

Updated:

08/29/2014, 13:05

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Tags:

writing scholarly communication computer science

Authors:

Stuart Shieber

Date tagged:

08/29/2014, 15:10

Date published:

08/29/2014, 15:10