Scientific Writing
Distraction-free scientific writing with Markdown, reStructuredText and Jupyter notebooks.
Contents
Word Processors
Vim
Converters and Filters
Spell Checking and Linting
Markdown linter.
Analyses scientific LaTeX papers, suggesting improvements from a list of common mistakes/ambiguities, tense consistency, a vs. an, spell check, and paragraph topic sentences.
Linter for prose.
Markdown linter.
reStructuredText linter.
Free, open-source linter for prose built with speed and extensibility in mind.
Naive linter for English prose.
Analyses scientific LaTeX papers, suggesting improvements from a list of common mistakes/ambiguities, tense consistency, a vs. an, spell check, and paragraph topic sentences.
Templates
Books
Minimal example of a book based on R Markdown and bookdown.
Clean academic pandoc LaTeX template.
Clean organization of files to provide a framework for writing a PhD thesis in mostly Markdown with a little bit of LaTeX, and compiled with Pandoc.
Tutorials
This example uses a custom nbconvert template and shows how to store your notebooks with no output (for version control) while automatically executing them before running bookbook, so that PDF and HTML versions include the output.
Step-by-step guide on creating a complex pdf document, including text, figures, references, images, formatting, and more.