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I figured I’d use this post to write about my workflowand my resources on this topic.  \nYou can view this post in the following formats, thanks to Pandoc!  \nIndex Terms—Pandoc, LaTeX, Markdown  \nI’ve had several people ask me about Markdown for academic writing recently. I figured I’d use this post to write about my workflow and my resources on this topic.  \nWhy Markdown  \nAcademic writing involves:  \n• writing down ideas as they come along and documenting results (notetaking),  \n• experimenting with these ideas (simulations and data analysis),  \n• and finally presenting them effectively (scientific paper) .  \nThere’s a lot to manage over the length of time this entire process spans. Academics require a set of tools that aid in making this process, i.e. the effective communication of ideas, as seamless as possible. There are currently two popular options for academics seeking to write technical papers-Microsoft Word or \\LaTeX.  \nA word about Word  \nMicrosoft Word is ubiquitous when it comes to writing reports. The great thing about Word is that there is almost no barrier to begin writing. You can incrementally build your skill in using this tool as and when you are using it. This is useful since it makes it immediately accessible, thereby decreasing the time and effort spent on learning  \nhow to use a software for writing and allowing you to concentrate on the writing itself.  \nHowever, I’ve found a few fundamental problems with Microsoft Word. Having a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor is great (even Richard Stallman seems to think so [1]) . However, products like Word fail miserably at separating content from formatting. These products impose on the writer their own concept of how a document should be formatted, which I’ve found greatly hinders the writing process. Have you ever experienced a sudden jump in spacing? Or mismatched formatting after a copy and paste from one part of the document to another? Or have indents and bullet points misbehave haphazardly? Word applies these formatting changes seemingly at random! These are all typesetting and formatting processes and these should be applied after the text is completed. These processes should not distract from the task at hand 1 -writing!  \nThere are other issues as well. Microsoft’s ecosystem comes at a price, literally. Word is proprietary, and Word’s format is a proprietary data format. When you use Word, by storing your work in this proprietary software’s proprietary data format, you tie yourself down to this particular licensed software for the forseeable future. You also make the implicit assumption that everyone you work with has the same software on their computer. Word also does not play well with its counterparts on OSX. With the same content, the document is presented differently depending on which machine you open it on. As far as I know there isn’t even a version for Linux machines. Heck, Microsoft Word does not even play well with previous versions of Microsoft Word. I understand why this issue occurs, considering the complexity in operating systems and software. Backward incompatible software or cross incompatibility are probably inevitable, but as an user, I shouldn’t have to be concerned about this. I shouldn’t have to think about what software or what version of a software my reviewers are using when I’m sending them a document. And speaking of sharing documents, did you know you can end up transferring malware through a Word document? Just think about that for a second. Opening what should be essentially a text file is a security risk for your machine. 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