i could probably add a fourth panel about using LaTeX but i don’t understand it enough to say for sure

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      see i know that cerebrally but it feels like cheating my brain won’t let me do it lol

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    i can remember a sr engineer at my last company apologised for the unfortunately named branch of his PR: featuredev_rebase_rebase_rebase

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      They’re moving from a low brain strat of docx to a higher brain strat of markdown (which can be converted to many other formats with pandoc) to finally using git to manage them. Then they state they should learn LaTeX.

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      for writing, it’s great. And the once you’re ready for submission/publishing md converts into new formats super smoothly

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        I know that Markdown does have an embedded LaTeX mode, but what if you need to use LaTeX packages like to number equations, do aligned equations, or cook up a macro to keep track of notation?

        Also I’m pretty sure in my department we gotta submit a .tex file, but I’m in STEM so I’m a bit biased.

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          When generating PDFs via pandoc, Markdown can contain any LaTeX directive, including packages in the preamble and any environments in the document. Pandoc converts the .md file into a .tex file based on the template you chose, and it allows both saving the .tex file and writing your own templates.

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        .org is the file extension for org-mode and it’s probably the best way to write a thesis using entirely FOSS tools in most cases because of its many great ways it helps in writing easy to reference notes, generate bibliographies, write & execute code, format LaTeX, export to any format, and many other things.

        But with the downside of needing to learn either Emacs or vim keybindings. However in spite of that, I know many people that use Emacs just for org-mode and org-roam for general writing purposes.