One such is BibT EX, and the later (more capable) BibL AT EX: tools for managing bibliographies in L AT EX documents. Moreover, tools for managing references and citations have existed for quite some time as well the entire L AT EX toolchain is largely driven by the concerns of academic publishing, and as such there are tools in the L AT EX ecosystem which address many of these problems. People have been doing this, and documenting their approaches, for quite a while. The idea of plain-text solutions to academic writing is not especially new only the application of Markdown to it is-and that, only relatively. It becomes particularly painful when dealing with the “ibid.”-type references, because if I insert a new reference between two existing references, I have to go back in and manually add all that the reference content again myself. For example, what if I needed to flip the order of some of these notes because it became clear that the paragraphs needed to move around? This happens frequently during the editorial process. Things really get complicated in the editing process, though.
This seems straightforward enough, though it is a bit of work to get the format right for each different kind of citation (articles, books, ebooks, electronic references to articles…). : Contra Krycho, ♡5, who has everything _quite_ wrong. : So Chris Krycho, "Not Exactly a Millennium,", July 22, Here is how that might look in manually-written footnotes, citing the very paper in which I sorted this all out: Some text in which I cite an author.
Nearly all academic citations styles make free use of the “ibid.” abbreviation for repeated references to save space, time, and energy. Many academic citation styles (including the Chicago Manual of Style, on which our seminary’s style guide is based) tend to have a long version of the footnote appear first, followed by short versions later. Academic writing introduces a few wrinkles, though, which means that this has always been the main pain point of my use of Markdown for writing papers. This poses no problems at all for normal footnotes. I’ve been writing all of my papers in Markdown ever since I got here, and haven’t regretted any part of that… except that managing references and footnotes has been painful at times.įootnotes in Markdown look like this: Here is some text. Much of my past few weeks were taken up with study for and writing and editing a paper for one of my classes at Southeastern.
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