Writing a scientific paper in Markdown

Compiling the paper

By default, a PDF version will be produced. Simply run

make

This will produce paper.pdf. To build a DOCX file, run

make docx

Prerequisites

pandoc: converting Markdown to PDF via LaTeX
pandoc-citeproc: reference/citation support
pandoc-fignos: numbering and referencing of figures
pandoc-tablenos: numbering and referencing of tables
pandoc-eqnos: numbering and referencing of equations
make (optional)

Installation

One way, using stack and pip:

stack install pandoc
stack install pandoc-citeproc
sudo pip install pandoc-fignos pandoc-tablenos pandoc-eqnos

Attribution

nature.csl obtained from https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles
figure taken from https://xkcd.com/688/