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Markdown for Science

I'm a big evangelist for using markdown to author documents in a scientific context. I've written about this several times on my blog but decided to put together a repo to help you learn and use this same workflow with a complete set of examples. If you spend a little time going through the tutorials, you'll be able to stop using Microsoft Word entirely and write clean, lightweight markdown files that can easily be version controlled by git. Collaboration with your coauthors would also become way more powerful and simpler. - KR

This repo is now a collaborative effort to collate all Markdown resource that have science applications. Please contribute and add yourself to our list.

Upcoming workshop

On June 8th, Martin Fenner and Stian Haklev are organizng a one day workshop at the Public Library of Science HQ in San Francisco. Spots are limited so register early.

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Downloading examples

If you have git installed, simply clone this repo and you'll have a full set of examples to work with locally. If you don't have a local git install, just hit the zip button at the top of the main repo to download a copy.

git clone git@github.com:karthikram/markdown_science.git

Contributions

If you have additional material or ideas to share, please feel free to contribute (wiki edits are currently open).