This[1] is what I use. So far haven't needed anything that's not supported by Katex. and Pandoc doesn't seem to have any problem with converting my stuff to Latex.
The only real problems I ever ran into were due to markdown (errors?) that vscode preview ignores but pandoc trips over. Mostly having to do with not leaving blank lines between different Markdown elements.
KaTeX and MathJax aren't really the same as (La)TeX at all though---they support the same math syntax, but LaTeX is a complete document processing system while KaTeX is just a math renderer.
KaTeX + Markdown is comparable to LaTeX, in the same way that notepad.exe is comparable to an IDE---they both do the same thing, but one has 1000× as many features as the other. I'm personally biased towards LaTeX, but simpler solutions like Markdown certainly have their place.
haunter · 3h ago
Not sure why is this posted here, pretty much useless without the book
maweki · 3h ago
Who doesn't own the third edition of the LaTeX Companion book?
psychoslave · 1h ago
Hmm, I guess most people. Just like TAOC, everybody talk about it and even those who buy it let it rot on a shelve.
I remember in university one of the professor coming to me during my master asking how did I achieved this fancy stuff in my report. Dude I just red the book, lol. I didn't manage to validate my M2 though, double lol. :D
sombragris · 1h ago
Well, it's a reference book, not a tutorial. You "let it rot on a shelve" until that moment when you need to achieve a specific outcome in your LaTeX code and then check out the book.
psychoslave · 1h ago
Just when I started to look back at latex to typeset some poetry of mine yesterday!
Been a while since I didn't touch it, so I didn't even have texlive installed on my Ubuntu box, and started a chase of dependency to make my French specific stuff to install. I still need to see if I can manage to make the three strophe I wrote be as rectangle shaped as possible, be it with automatic line break on a vers (not sure the term in English) to the next row right aligned and preceded with a [
gucci-on-fleek · 26m ago
I'm not 100% sure what you're looking for, but placing "\parfillskip=0pt" at the start of the paragraph will make the last line end on the right margin, which I think is what you mean by "rectangle shaped".
The only real problems I ever ran into were due to markdown (errors?) that vscode preview ignores but pandoc trips over. Mostly having to do with not leaving blank lines between different Markdown elements.
[1]: https://katex.org/docs/supported.html
KaTeX + Markdown is comparable to LaTeX, in the same way that notepad.exe is comparable to an IDE---they both do the same thing, but one has 1000× as many features as the other. I'm personally biased towards LaTeX, but simpler solutions like Markdown certainly have their place.
I remember in university one of the professor coming to me during my master asking how did I achieved this fancy stuff in my report. Dude I just red the book, lol. I didn't manage to validate my M2 though, double lol. :D
Been a while since I didn't touch it, so I didn't even have texlive installed on my Ubuntu box, and started a chase of dependency to make my French specific stuff to install. I still need to see if I can manage to make the three strophe I wrote be as rectangle shaped as possible, be it with automatic line break on a vers (not sure the term in English) to the next row right aligned and preceded with a [