2026-02-13 08:11 UTC
@yaxu Out of curiosity: what do you use or would you prefer to use? At our department a lot of the #Rstats based course writing moved to quarto (in case you don't know that : https://quarto.org ) But as it's pandoc based, you still need to get into the latex bit if you want your PDFs to look a bit nice.
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@yaxu@post.lurk.org 2026-02-13 09:34
@JorisMeys Academic markdown with pandoc is great. I've been running conferences with markdown templates since 2015. PDFs are not the end game, they're inaccessible and don't reflow. But generating both html and pdfs from the same markdown template is a good compromise. LaTeX is fine as an intermediary step, but I don't think authors need to write it directly really, and the vast majority of authors will refuse to go anywhere near it.
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@Lusorio@mastodon.social 2026-02-13 09:51
@JorisMeys @yaxu Anybody looking for a LaTeX replacement should take a look at the @typst project. It removes a lot of the pain-points while still being very powerfull.