I've played around with Markdown a bit, especially in writing computatable documents using the IPython notebook. I've actually been hoping to use either Markdown or reST along with pandoc to write a future paper, but I need to do more testing to make sure the conversion is as robust as advertised. But hopefully if Authorea solves the collaboration issue, then I'll have a viable alternative to that approach.
Markdown + pandoc is viable for writing now. I'm doing my thesis with it. Although the citation support gave me the shits so I wrote my own citation markup extension (incomplete - https://github.com/singingfish/Citeproc-Markdown ).
IPython looks amazing. I haven't personally used it yet but it appears to bring most of the Mathematica-notebook goodness over to the python community. The one thing it is lacking, which is admittedly pretty hard to implement, is Mathematica style equation entry. I can input an equation in Mathematica much faster than I can in Matlab or python.
Markdown is a real pleasure to use. One of my favorite features is that it is easy on the eyes. I was never in love with the Latex syntax.
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I've played around with Markdown a bit, especially in writing computatable documents using the IPython notebook. I've actually been hoping to use either Markdown or reST along with pandoc to write a future paper, but I need to do more testing to make sure the conversion is as robust as advertised. But hopefully if Authorea solves the collaboration issue, then I'll have a viable alternative to that approach.
Markdown + pandoc is viable for writing now. I'm doing my thesis with it. Although the citation support gave me the shits so I wrote my own citation markup extension (incomplete - https://github.com/singingfish/Citeproc-Markdown ).
IPython looks amazing. I haven't personally used it yet but it appears to bring most of the Mathematica-notebook goodness over to the python community. The one thing it is lacking, which is admittedly pretty hard to implement, is Mathematica style equation entry. I can input an equation in Mathematica much faster than I can in Matlab or python.
Markdown is a real pleasure to use. One of my favorite features is that it is easy on the eyes. I was never in love with the Latex syntax.