muuankarski / paperx

Experimenting with (plain) text based paper writing

Introduction

I created source files for three documents, for a proper academic paper, for an essay and for a presentation slides.

You can see the source and output RAW-FILES thru the listing above.

To see them rendered click the links from below:

• essay_galigula.html
• theory_paper.pdf
• slides.html

Processing the source files

Each source file has a short command in within tags <!-- and --> that converts the source code into html/pdf. To be able to run the commands you need to have pandoc and latex installed. Follow these directions:

• Installing Pandoc - duration of download and install approx. 30s.
• Latex:in asentaminen linuxiin, Mac OS X:ään ja Windowsiin - duration of download and install approx. 60 min.

Commands

This has been tested in using pandoc 1.12.3 version in Windows 7 and Ubuntu linux 12.04

Use following scripts to convert slides into desired format

For converting the theory_paper.md

• pdf: pandoc --filter pandoc-citeproc theory_paper.md -o theory_paper.pdf --toc --number-sections
• docx: pandoc --filter pandoc-citeproc theory_paper.md -o theory_paper.docx --toc --number-sections

For converting the slides.md

• reveal.js html: pandoc -t revealjs -s slides.md -o slides.html -V revealjs-url=http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js -V theme=simple -V transition=fade
• pdf: pandoc -t beamer slides.md -o slides.pdf

For converting the essay_galigula.md

• html: pandoc -s essay_galigula.md -o essay_galigula.html

Writing apps for Markdown

And of course, you need an application for writing text. Notepad is good, but for windows I recommend Markdown Pad and for OS X maybe Mou, Clockwork Engine or perhaps TEXTS.