You may notice that two of these are article templates and one is a book template.
This very nice article template by Thiago.That earlier article gave some examples of using markdown in Beamer presentations and posters: today we're going to look at even more fun and exciting styling possibilities! Using markdown in styled LaTeX templatesĪpart from the examples above, you can use use markdown in almost all templates. Authors (especially those already familiar with markdown) would have a much more succinct syntax to work with (with some caveats) while still having access to all the glories of LaTeX packages and templates to take care of the styling and formatting. One of the ideas hinted at in the earlier article is that a combination of markdown and LaTeX permits a wonderful separation of content and style.
Bear in mind that most journal-submission portals do not enable -shell-escape-unless you're allowed to upload only the output PDF of your manuscript, your LaTeX files containing markdown may not compile successfully when processed by the publisher's submission system. tex files with the -shell-escape option to make it work on local LaTeX installations-Overleaf does this for you (automatically).
IntroductionĪ while ago we rejoiced at the release of the markdown package which made it possible to write markdown syntax in LaTeX documents-and celebrated it with an article called How to write in Markdown on Overleaf whose purpose was to demonstrate some of the supported syntax. We are pleased to publish this updated version which takes note of, and includes, his advice and suggestions.
The point is, think about your use cases instead of just blindly opting for one path or another.Post-publication update (13 May, 2017): We are grateful to Vít Novotný, the author/maintainer of the markdown package, for writing to us with some helpful feedback concerning the original article. (You can also just use a shebang line, if it bothers you that much or yours or your users' environment sucks that hard and you don't mind your markdown file having a huge heading saying !/usr/bin/env or some such. (And in such cases, you can simply prefix your command string with env or sh or whatever!) So don't let this detail get in the way of how awesome it can be to mix markdown and shell scripting. So the only time a non-shebang file is in any danger of failing execution is when it's being executed in a non-POSIX environment or by a program that doesn't use those functions to do the exec. You see, POSIX 2008.1-compliant shells are required to treat shebangless text files as shell scripts - and you wouldn't want to use a non-POSIX-compliant shell, would you? (Even busybox is compliant enough!) For that matter, since POSIX.2008-1, the "treat other files as a shell script" behavior applies to execvp() and execlp() as well. Not only are they missing the point of how frickin' awesome this is, but they are also technically incorrect. Some people may wish to point out that a file without a shebang line is not technically a valid executable and is therefore not portable. Mdsh also has a ton of other features for writing literate shelldown.
: By the power of this magic string, ex: set ft=markdown exec mdsh "$0" #, I won't need to add magic strings in every code block, or have a tacky exit block! (And I can declare interpreters for non-shell languages instead of using ugly triple heredoc lines.) If you'd rather have a saner way of doing this, check out mdsh - the magic string in that case looks more like: And now we're done! It's a little messy, but it works in a pinch.