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title	date	anonymous	author	output	published	bibliography	tags	abstract
On the Helpfulness of Using Markdown for Academic Writing	31-02-2024	false	name institution orcid city country email Joe Bloggs Lancaster University https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000 Lancaster England [email protected]	pdf_document	false	report	Publishing	With more people using LaTeX for reports in Lancaster's SCC department, development of a faster and more intuitive writing system is the clear next step.

INTRODUCTION

Lots of great stuff is available using Markdown [@markdown] with Pandoc [@pandoc]! See those references? They are automatically generated behind the scenes, and use easy IDs to reference in your Markdown file. YAML is used at the header of the Markdown file, to add some more attributes such as the abstract and author info.

What's this? A subsection?

Look at that! Using easy headers we can create subsections that show up in the table of contents. We have one subsection,

And more

With more text...

No more subsections can be created beyond this level.

Cool Markdown Things

We have easy bold formatting, italics, and even BOTH! Yet still readable. What about code? programs can be in monospace. I am working on having code blocks available.

Less distractions should make writing more fun and faster. Most of the tedium of the report formatting is done:

• Title Page
• Abstract Page
• Table of Contents
• Sections on new pages
• References section at the end

So now, get writing (and referencing)! See BibLaTeX docs for how to write a bibliography (most journals have .bib references available to copy).

Enjoy!