Re: Starting intro to literate programming/ESS/Org mode?

Hi Kevin,

> Le 30 janv. 2025 =C3=A0 11:36, Kevin Zembower via ESS-help <ess-help@r-pr=
oject.org> a =C3=A9crit :
> =

> What I'd like to learn is the technique of using Org mode, and, I
> think, RMarkdown to do literate programming without the overhead of
> learning LaTeX.

It really depends what you want or need to do. The R Markdown/Bookdown stuf=
f is good to create web pages of mostly computing and graphics material. If=
 you need to create PDF documents with a lot of math content (read: equatio=
ns), you cannot escape the LaTeX "overhead". At its roots, Markdown is a si=
mple language to do simple things. The Internet is filled with questions of=
 the type "How do I do this in R Markdown" to which the answer sums up to: =
"include this piece of LaTeX in the code".

I consider myself a heavy user of literate programming: I use it for pretty=
 much all my teaching material. And everything remains based on LaTeX and S=
weave. The one other thing I'm happy I learned to streamline my workflow is=
 'make'.

HTH

Vincent Goulet
Professeur titulaire
=C3=89cole d'actuariat, Universit=C3=A9 Laval

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