On Thursday, 26 January 2017 at 10:26:25 UTC, Chris wrote:
> Er, yes. That's how it works. Always ask the publisher first. But that wasn't the question. The question was Markdown or LaTeX, and if you want to generate your own PDF for e.g. a M.A. or Ph.D., some people prefer LaTeX because of the fine grained control it offers. I don't know a single Ph.D. student who used Word who didn't have to fight with Word stubbornly restructuring the layout. The footnotes, the graphics ... a nightmare.

I believe I just used the default Word style. It's a goddamned text, why it needs any sort of sophisticated layout aside from fitting the page? I had no problem with footnotes maybe because I believe they shouldn't exists in such documents in the first place: if you want to write something, just write it where it fits. It's baffling to see footnotes in ISO standards: if it's something important, write it where it belongs, W3C and IETF got it right, their documents have no footnotes.

On Friday, 27 January 2017 at 11:05:41 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 January 2017 at 10:26:25 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> Er, yes. That's how it works. Always ask the publisher first. But that wasn't the question. The question was Markdown or LaTeX, and if you want to generate your own PDF for e.g. a M.A. or Ph.D., some people prefer LaTeX because of the fine grained control it offers. I don't know a single Ph.D. student who used Word who didn't have to fight with Word stubbornly restructuring the layout. The footnotes, the graphics ... a nightmare.
>
> I believe I just used the default Word style. It's a goddamned text, why it needs any sort of sophisticated layout aside from fitting the page? I had no problem with footnotes maybe because I believe they shouldn't exists in such documents in the first place: if you want to write something, just write it where it fits. It's baffling to see footnotes in ISO standards: if it's something important, write it where it belongs, W3C and IETF got it right, their documents have no footnotes.

Yes, you are right of course. In a perfect world we'd just write a text and give the odd reference. Unfortunately, anyone who writes an M.A., M.Sc. or Ph.D. thesis has to reference everything. Not even the most basic concept can be mentioned without referencing a book written by some professor(s). If a student writes "1 + 1 = 2" s/he has to reference it with a footnote à la "[1] Smith, T. & Wesson, J. Basic Concepts of Arithmetics - An Introduction. Cambridge, 2001."

If you fail to do so, they will grill you. I know, it's ridiculous. Having said this, depending on the topic, you do need to insert footnotes - either to guide / help your readers or to shut up potential critics :-)

On Friday, 27 January 2017 at 12:02:01 UTC, Chris wrote:
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> Yes, you are right of course. In a perfect world we'd just write a text and give the odd reference. Unfortunately, anyone who writes an M.A., M.Sc. or Ph.D. thesis has to reference everything. Not even the most basic concept can be mentioned without referencing a book written by some professor(s). If a student writes "1 + 1 = 2" s/he has to reference it with a footnote à la "[1] Smith, T. & Wesson, J. Basic Concepts of Arithmetics - An Introduction. Cambridge, 2001."
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> If you fail to do so, they will grill you. I know, it's ridiculous. Having said this, depending on the topic, you do need to insert footnotes - either to guide / help your readers or to shut up potential critics :-)

Law articles are the worst with footnotes. Sometimes they'll have a whole page of footnotes with like one line of text at the top.

On Thursday, 26 January 2017 at 15:02:33 UTC, aberba wrote:
> Will most likely go with markdown and use other solutions for theming it. Then pandoc it to PDF

Markdown is also supported by vibe.d's diet templates.

On 1/27/2017 2:51 AM, Chris wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 January 2017 at 23:28:37 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 1/26/2017 7:02 AM, aberba wrote:
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>> I did this book:
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>> https://www.amazon.com/Historians-History-World-Vol-Prolegomena-ebook/dp/B00REVL4BC/
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> Is it the same as this:
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> https://www.kobo.com/ie/en/ebook/the-historians-history-of-the-world-in-twenty-five-volumes-prolegomena-egypt-mesopotamia
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> It's €3.99 there and only £1.50 (€1.76) on Amazon. However, I don't do kindle. I
> recently got interested in exactly this topic, especially Mesopotamia. Would it
> be a good introduction?

Yes, it's the same book, but mine does a better job with the images and typography. Yes, it's a great introduction.

On Friday, 27 January 2017 at 12:02:01 UTC, Chris wrote:
> If a student writes "1 + 1 = 2" s/he has to reference it with a footnote à la "[1] Smith, T. & Wesson, J. Basic Concepts of Arithmetics - An Introduction. Cambridge, 2001."

Hmm... never saw such convention. Usually the author writes 1+1=2 [1] in text and full reference is in appendix under this number, this is also used in e.g. arxiv.org publications, then footnotes are used for explanations and supplementary comments. Another convention is when you write an unnumbered short reference sort of 1+1=2 (2001, Smith et al.) and full reference is again in appendix.