This is a meta comment (ahaven’t had the chance to properly read your paper yet) but this is the kind of document I would have normally expected to encounter as a 50 page LaTeX-generated pdf, and yet I much prefer this format! A pet peeve of mine is that so much quantitative research is latex/pdf based and I deeply dislike essentially all latex software.
May I ask how you went about writing and formatting this? What format/program did you use to draft it? (my first guess is some kind of markdown) Was it easy to format for EA forum? Did you use any neat tricks for embedding code output (e.g. with rmarkdown)?
May I ask how you went about writing and formatting this? What format/program did you use to draft it? (my first guess is some kind of markdown) Was it easy to format for EA forum? Did you use any neat tricks for embedding code output (e.g. with rmarkdown)?
Not the OP, but I usually start in markdown, convert it to html using pandoc (with the -r gfm). Then I copy the html to Google docs, share it with people, rework it after their comments, post it to the EA forum, and then download an html from the forum’s graphql API which I convert to markdown for my own archives.
I wrote it in Google Docs, primarily for the ease of getting comments. I then copied it into the EA Forum editor and spent a few hours fixing the formatting—all the maths had to be rewritten, all footnote added back in, tables fixed, image captions added—which was a bit of a hassle.
I sadly don’t have any neat tricks. I tried this Google Docs tool to convert to Markdown but it didn’t work well.
The EA Forum editor now have the ability to share drafts and allow comments and collaborative editing, which I think I’ll try for my next project. I’m also hoping Google Docs will add a better maths editor.
Hi Tristan,
This is a meta comment (ahaven’t had the chance to properly read your paper yet) but this is the kind of document I would have normally expected to encounter as a 50 page LaTeX-generated pdf, and yet I much prefer this format! A pet peeve of mine is that so much quantitative research is latex/pdf based and I deeply dislike essentially all latex software.
May I ask how you went about writing and formatting this? What format/program did you use to draft it? (my first guess is some kind of markdown) Was it easy to format for EA forum? Did you use any neat tricks for embedding code output (e.g. with rmarkdown)?
Not the OP, but I usually start in markdown, convert it to html using pandoc (with the -r gfm). Then I copy the html to Google docs, share it with people, rework it after their comments, post it to the EA forum, and then download an html from the forum’s graphql API which I convert to markdown for my own archives.
This definitely sounds like a better approach than mine, thanks for sharing! This will be useful for me for any future projects
Thanks, glad to hear it!
I wrote it in Google Docs, primarily for the ease of getting comments. I then copied it into the EA Forum editor and spent a few hours fixing the formatting—all the maths had to be rewritten, all footnote added back in, tables fixed, image captions added—which was a bit of a hassle.
I sadly don’t have any neat tricks. I tried this Google Docs tool to convert to Markdown but it didn’t work well.
The EA Forum editor now have the ability to share drafts and allow comments and collaborative editing, which I think I’ll try for my next project. I’m also hoping Google Docs will add a better maths editor.