Write scientific articles in markdown

for development, after cloning:

pip install -e .

and soon:

pip install texmark

See example.md for a sample markdown file with yaml metadata in the header.

The command to convert the markdow to tex is:

texmark example.md

And to convert to PDF

texmark example.md --pdf

For another journal, it is enough to change the journal -> template' field in the yaml metadata. For testing it is also possible to pass -jfor--journal-template`:

texmark example.md --pdf -j science -o build/example-science.pdf --tex build/example-science.tex

See the example tex and pdf results in build

For now only copernicus and science template are available. Only partial support is provided. Upon submission you'll most likely need to rework the final latex version, especially to handle things like appendix or special sections. Alternatively, you may write your custom template (see the advanced section)

Just add

collect_figures_and_tables: true

to your markdown yaml metadata.

The templates are written in jinja2.

Just copy from e.g. texmark/templates/science/template.tex to your own, e.g. custom_template.tex And run again with:

texmark example.md --pdf -j science -o build/example-science.pdf --tex build/example-science.tex --template custom_template.tex

The -j journal template option (here science) is still used to set custom filters (e.g. only \cite for Science, no \citet ; extract specific sections as metadata to be injected as {{section}} instead of {{body}} etc). The machinery is defined in texmark/filters.py and can in principle be extended or copied. Two approaches are possible:

• just add more filters via the --filters command or in the yaml metadata.
• extend the existing filters in a module, e.g. custom_filter.py, that extends the filters dict from the texmark.filters module (see the source code to check the details). And then pass it via --filters-module custom_filter parameter (or custom_filter in the metadata) to prompt the texmark filter to load that module and make it available via -j your-custom-name. Note that will require you to explicitly pass --template as well. Unless you overwrite an existing filter.