Scientific authoring
- Papers are written either the LaTeX-way or the MS-way.
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In the meantime, Jupiter notebooks became the de facto data publication medium
(ever since the biggest breakthrough in Astrophysics was made live with a notebook)
- …where Markdown is the de facto text medium around scientific calculations.
- BUT remains the tedious and error-prone task of porting jupyter diagrams & calculations
into MS Word.
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In the parallel universe, programmers had figured out that the ReSTructuredText
in Python’s Spinx was extensible enough to match many essential LaTeX features,
like cross-referencing figures, formulas, sections & bibliography, CSS theming,
exporting to PDF/epub/LaTex, etc,
- …but RsT is not as simple as Markdown, and setting up Sphinx is a pain…
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Since 2 years ago, this applies no more:
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Jupyter Book offers the best from both worlds:
- extensible
& capable Markdown based on MyST,
- coupled with Jupyter’s live data processing & diagrams,
- packaged in an easy to setup Sphinx installation.
- Practically, in a couple of years you may be authoring your papers
completly in Jupyter Book.
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Resources:
Publishing