Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

I'll be starting a PhD soon and would love to use a pandoc-based workflow (with MD or another format) for the gross of my writing.

How did you all structure the commenting on your writing? I find converting to odt/doc before sending, managing all the exported versions with comments etc. becomes quite tedious. But I'm a bit reluctant to force my supervisors to use eg. git+criticmarkup[1]. I would love to hear you experiences!

[1]: http://criticmarkup.com




A few things:

- In my case, my supervisors mostly had handwritten notes which rendered that point a bit moot. However, when I send the almost-complete draft to a professional copy editor, it was indeed a pain to add the comments. Either handwritten+scanned, as acrobat comments, or word comments, they had to be manually input into the markdown file.

- Everything else worked relatively better. It was a bit tedious to type loooong pandoc commands "pandoc --filter=... etc etc" so I recently coded pandocmk [1] to make my life easier. It's not super well documented (but it's a quite short script, so readable), but the idea is that you type the command line options as metadata at the top.

[1] https://github.com/sergiocorreia/pandocmk




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: