Another excellent tool for academic writing in plain text is the Marked 2 app by Brett Terpstra. In this tutorial, I show you how to download the app and configure it to generate citations using pandoc. I also show you how you can use Marked 2 and Markdown with two other programs: Scrivener and iThoughts HD.…...more
Thank you. This was very helpful.
Please keep up the good work with the video's: they're demystifying the plain-text toolchain approach to scholarly publishing.
Based on this video I downloaded a trail version of iThoughts HD and it was a revelation, particularly its capacity to play nice with Markdown. I've been happily using Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) from Tufts Uni for many years; however, I've been looking at a pathway for concept-mapping that is less dependent on a specific format or platform. Markdown-to-outline-to-map looks promising.
This video was good at the time but is now showing its age. A number of commands and options have changed, and it's up to the individual users to find out the current versions. At times like this mass-production software like MS Word is in a good position because many people have used it, and it might be easier to find answers to one's questions.
Hi Nicholas, thanks for another great video! BTW, your students are extremely lucky to have you helping them through all this.
Question for you on this video and your use of iThoughts and DevonThink. I see that you are linking to your notes in DevonThink and I understand that bit I think. I notice that within DevonThink you appear to be using the RichText note type so that you can do your linking between notes (as if I understand correctly, the text version of notes in DevonThink does not support that linking).
But then it appears that you are writing your notes in markdown. Is that right? And last question: why do you have ## Tags as a section in your notes versus using the DevonThink tagging feature? Is that so you can some day move them out of DevonThink easily? Thanks again, Nathan
Great collection of videos but I'm having problems with the Marked 2 one. I have the same problem that B Zhang had a year ago. When the data is entered in the args box, you get the message he shows.
It's easy enough to get rid of the, apparently redundant, --normalize, but the new +smart extension either throws an error message, or has no effect. From what I can make out from the documentation, it isn't intended to work with html anyway.
Any thoughts?
you know multimarkdown can do citations, even citep/citet for latex, footnotes etc. I also feel that OmniOutliner in combination with Marked and Textmate(or any other texteditor) works better than scrivener.
edit: textexpander is ridiculously great with markdown/latex
I tried to export ithought HD file into Marked2 file. However, the figure inside the ithought doesn't appear properly. Are there any solutions? Many thanks!
Thanks for the video, but I got this message after I followed all the steps
--smart/-S has been removed. Use +smart or -smart extension instead.
For example: pandoc -f markdown+smart -t markdown-smart.
--normalize has been removed. Normalization is now automatic.
Try pandoc --help for more information.
what should I do?
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