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Last year at THATCamp New England I gave a workshop on using plain text for scholarship, especially using Markdown and Pandoc. Tom Scheinfeldt and Abby Mullen apparently struck some kind of deal whereby I am obligated to talk about Markdown, so here is a session proposal. I propose that we talk about how how to write scholarly work in Markdown and Pandoc. If we want, we can also talk about more esoteric plain text tools like git and knitr and LaTeX. If you’re interested in doing this session, then you might want to take a look at the compilation of links here.

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We’re getty closer to THATCamp New England at UConn. Perhaps you’re thinking of proposing a session! Once you register, you will get a username and password for our THATCampNE site. When you get that information and the link to our site, log in to create a new post with the category “session-proposal”. If you haven’t used WordPress before, check out their helpful support page for writing posts. To add a category, just look at the right hand navigation panel under “Secured Categories”. You’ll see one for “session-proposal”. You’ll also see 4 others: “session-make”, “session-play”, “session-talk” and “session-teach”. These are subcategories. If you select a subcategory, remember to also check the main category “session-proposal” as well. Check out our page Propose to get the full details.