README.md

markdown-letter

Letters in markdown using LaTeX.

• markdown-paper for template for a scientific paper.
• markdown-talk for template for a beamer-based presentation.
• markdown-notes for template for note-taking.

The source is written in markdown and translated to latex using pandoc and customized templates located in the templates folder.

The Makefile details how the translation works. If you are on linux, simply calling make in the parent directory will compile the report to a pdf-format if all dependencies are installed. Edit the variables in the Makefile to choose a template (located in ./templates).

Usage

1. Install the dependencies

   sudo apt-get install pandoc pandoc-citeproc
   pip install pandoc-fignos
   

2. Clone this repository

   git clone
   

3. Edit Makefile to choose a template

4. Write letter in letter.md, compile with make

Recommended Editor/Tools

I think it works very nicely to write markdown-based papers in the atom editor. The following packages are useful:

• markdown-preview for nice syntax highlighting
• pdf-view for viewing the PDF in Atom directly

Dependencies

• pandoc
• a latex-distribution (e.g., texlive) including bibtex

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Matthias Mittner matthias.mittner@uit.no