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Mixing text and computations

What

Mixing text + computations, Markdown, quarto, webpages, pandoc

Markdown is a simple, easy-to-use markup language perfect for use in a text editor. There are now tons of tools that allow you to turn text with simple typographic bits of markup (# headings, italics, bold, etc) into nice looking documents, webpages, presentations, … I will give a brief overview and talk about why I think it’s useful.

• the rendered revealjs slides I used are [at this link]
• the raw qmd file for the presentation is 00-presentation.qmd

The derived files are in docx, html and pdf document…

00-presentation.docx 00-presentation.html 00-presentation.pdf

including computations

Check out the [github repo) for code examples n julia, python and r:

• 01-doc-with-julia.qmd
• 01-doc-with-python.qmd
• 01-doc-with-r.qmd

Links

• an online editor at stackedit, to just have a play
• https://quarto.org/
• https://rstudio.org/ - now pos.it: https://posit.co/
• the original proposal for markdown: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/