Making Markdown into a microwave meal

NOVOTNÝ, Vít. Making Markdown into a microwave meal. TUGboat. Portland, OR 97208-2311, U.S.A: TUG, 2020, roč. 41, No 3, 3 pp. ISSN 0896-3207. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.47397/tb/41-3/tb129novotny-frozen.

Basic information

• Original name: Making Markdown into a microwave meal
• Authors: NOVOTNÝ, Vít.
• Edition: TUGboat, Portland, OR 97208-2311, U.S.A, TUG, 2020, 0896-3207.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics
• Country of publisher: United States of America
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: Article DOI Preprint User manual Package documentation
• Organization unit: Faculty of Informatics
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.47397/tb/41-3/tb129novotny-frozen
• Keywords (in Czech): Markdown; Lua; LuaTeX; LaTeX; ConTeXt; TeX
• Keywords in English: Markdown; Lua; LuaTeX; LaTeX; ConTeXt; TeX
• Tags: TeX, typesetting
• Tags: International impact

Abstract

In today’s academic publishing, many venues request LaTeX source in addition to or instead of PDF documents. This is often for the purpose of editing and improving full-text search. Services such as arXiv, Editorial Manager, and EasyChair require LaTeX source code that can be microwaved in a single run of pdfTeX without shell access and without invoking external programs. This requires that authors include auxiliary files and limits their selection of LaTeX packages. In this article, I will show how LaTeX documents using the Markdown, Minted, and BibLaTeX packages can be precooked and frozen to be later microwaved in a single run of pdfTeX.

Links

• MUNI/A/1411/2019, interní kód MU: Name: Aplikovaný výzkum: softwarové architektury kritických infrastruktur, bezpečnost počítačových systémů, zpracování přirozeného jazyka a jazykové inženýrství, vizualizaci velkých dat a rozšířená realita.

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A