Comment on How I Under-Engineered my BookparentComments−thangalin25doverkillTo write my hard sci-fi novel, I wrote a cross-platform Markdown editor so that I could use interpolated variables along with R code:https://keenwrite.com/screenshots.htmlConTeXt produces the PDF files. I also developed a few calculators to help confirm physics and other plot-related aspects:https://autonoma.ca/calculators/−tapete124dDo you have somewhere an article or similar about the motivation behind this project, i.e. how did you went from "I write a novel" to "I need to write my own editor to write my novel"? That would be really interesting!−thangalin23dThe closest would be the Typesetting Markdown series, which centers around using interpolated strings as variables inside prose:https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/05/22/typesetting-markdow...
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To write my hard sci-fi novel, I wrote a cross-platform Markdown editor so that I could use interpolated variables along with R code:
https://keenwrite.com/screenshots.html
ConTeXt produces the PDF files. I also developed a few calculators to help confirm physics and other plot-related aspects:
https://autonoma.ca/calculators/
Do you have somewhere an article or similar about the motivation behind this project, i.e. how did you went from "I write a novel" to "I need to write my own editor to write my novel"? That would be really interesting!
The closest would be the Typesetting Markdown series, which centers around using interpolated strings as variables inside prose:
https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/05/22/typesetting-markdow...