I hate videos like this.

Good comment. Hello from Turkey. I have just recently started to learn&use Markdown and soon found out that I had to actually use LaTeX, which I avoided as much as I could because of its difficult looks and the archaic structure. But once I got past the initial steep learning curve, I found it to be much more comprehensible and capable than MD. When you begin to prepare a detailed document, that's when MD begins to insuffice and you have to tweak, use extensions, hack MD, making it eventually harder to use than LaTeX. Now I'll take a look at Krummel and Banas. I'm still learning LaTeX.

@@Teri_Berk Good luck. You are right. LaTeX has a steep learning curve but once you start to get used to it then you will be surprised by its power and beauty - especially in generating equations. As a Mac user I prefer TeXShop as the program but if you are Windows person then I would recommend TeXMaker (see Krummel master it). There is also an online version called Overlay (it has a bunch of good videos also). LaTeX has gotten a lot easier to learn then when I started. Best of luck.

TeXmacs, the better way to type mathematics.

I agree, LaTeX is a horsepower machine and in case you need to produce chapters and structured documentation, Yes you have to compile but technically you dont need to watch the aesthetics of the document, everything is already defined at source with sections, figures and math. double refresh for DVI and you export quickly in PS or PDF Practically if you need to print a book, LaTeX is the way to go. there is no chance to get a better productivity with MD or MS-Word (if you want to shoot your feet). At the video the author is annoyed mainly about the compile flow. Ok fine. With LaTex once you set the document style(beautiful hand-crafted in general, tbh) is just write only. I understand his feeling to recompile something but just using the TeX editors they provide a precompile DVI viewer which is a sort of preview similar to the final result(a part the pre-allocated figures). Also in LaTex, numberting and aligning captions for tables and figures is the easiest part of the job. Versioning, it is just straightforward no issues. Modularity? c'mon it is the great deal using LaTeX. only an insane brain make in one single file an entire book. You can make a cooperative work with multiple chapters without to screw up the entire document. btw, LaTex is de-facto a program language to create documents. Plugins? the robust and well used libraries supports all needs. there is also a plugin to prepare in one go, presentations and also vector graphics. Ok at least for me MD is not convenient at all. but I respect his choice to dig into MD. LaTeX is my favourite.

Yes. Unfortunately I didn't realize this in the beginning

maltefgerdes your rebuttal is acknowledged in the very beginning of the video. Did u even watch it.

The arguments are odd cause 1) you think the latex workflow isnt that bad and 2) you like how latex documents look better? I’d say those are odd arguments if anything.

Sorry no, never looked into this

Pandoc does footnotes, contents, and bibliographies, and is pretty good at them. It doesn't support formats for different document types, articles, books, report, etc. It doesn't do indexing and cross referencing. As is to be expected there is still no substitute for LaTeX for doing large scientific, math, and tech documents. One commenter did point out that markdown used with mathjax makes tech documents more accessible to visually disabled readers