Re: LaTex editors and image editors for scientific articles

Honestly, you have only 1 out of 2 choices (because other tools won't have
the wide berth that your going to need for publishing - LaTex, semantics,
cross-references <https://mystmd.org/guide/external-references>, schema,
etc.):

1. MyST Markdown <https://mystmd.org/> - which was specifically built for
SCIENCE and its full ecosystem (along with all of Sphinx's ecosystem)
2. MkDocs - and it's full ecosystem of plugins (but unfortunately lacks the
combined experience that you'll get with MyST)

If you're confused or need help on an "editor experience" for either of
them, then simply ask in their community and you'll get lots of different
opinions.
But Visual Studio Code <https://code.visualstudio.com/Download> is going to
be your best bet for now with MyST.  Otherwise, you can use CurveNote
<https://curvenote.com/for/writing> if you want quick and easy as a single
user writer, or later collaboration with peers as part of the editing,
review, publishing processes.

I think you'll be happy with Visual Studio Code and using MyST Markdown.
You'll learn pretty much the easy syntax and how to preview in PDF or HTML
and everything you need in less than a day, and then keep that knowledge
for life.
If you need convincing, you can ask choldgraf (Chris Holdgraf) (github.com)
<https://github.com/choldgraf>

Thad
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/
https://calendly.com/thadguidry/


On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 6:20 AM Paul Tyson <phtyson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Commendable effort. After a career mostly helping large-scale technical
> documentation outfits, I have no satisfactory system for producing good
> documents for myself. What little I do involves emacs and open-source XML
> tooling.
> On 9/6/24 14:23, Milton Ponson wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> After years of keeping notes and mulling over writing articles, I have
> finally decided to convert these into actual articles for uploading to
> arXiv and other preprint servers.
>
> I would like to know what the best options are in terms of free or paid
> LaTex editors to use.
>
> I have no knowledge of LaTeX editing other than emacs, but if you're
> inclined to XML, search "XML and LaTeX" for lots of options. For
> high-quality page layout, the pipeline would probably include XSLT and
> XSL-FO.
>
> Also in the XML space, XQuery for Humanists [1] is a good resource.
>
> For something completely different but quite interesting that might align
> with your LOD goals, see dokieli [2].
>
>
> And what (free) software to use for creating images and figures, and
> extensive use of math symbols.
>
> Along with Inkscape and GIMP, there's asymptote [3] to make beautiful
> pictures from math.
>
> Best,
> --Paul
>
> [1] https://coding4humanists.github.io/xquery4humanists/
> [2] https://dokie.li/
> [3] https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/
>
>
> The setting for use is a single user.
>
> Milton Ponson
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>
>