Textile Research Papers

The latest Threads Whitepaper release is available at https://docsend.com/view/gu3ywqi

Setup

brew install pandoc pandoc-citeproc

If you want to do the Markdown -> LaTeX -> PDF step below, you'll also want a working LaTeX environment. On MacOS grab it from here and follow the install instructions. The setup below should use that LaTeX install automatically.

Develop

You'll probably also want to use VSCode with the Markdown Preview Enhanced plugin.

You'll want to use the following settings:

{
  "markdown-preview-enhanced.enableTypographer": true,
  "markdown-preview-enhanced.breakOnSingleNewLine": false,
  "markdown-preview-enhanced.usePandocParser": true,
  "markdown-preview-enhanced.pandocMarkdownFlavor": "markdown-raw_tex+tex_math_dollars+fenced_code_attributes+backtick_code_blocks",
  "markdown-preview-enhanced.pandocArguments": "--number-sections,--filter=pandoc-crossref",
  "markdown-preview-enhanced.mathRenderingOption": "MathJax",
  "markdown-preview-enhanced.codeBlockTheme": "auto.css",
  "markdown-preview-enhanced.enableEmojiSyntax": false
}

We use pandoc crossref to do the internal section/fig/equation references, pandoc citeproc for the citations. These use a special syntax in the markdown that might be slightly unfamiliar to some. The docs are pretty good, so check those out before making citation or ref changes.

Export

Building one of the markdown/pandoc formatted papers is relatively simple using the Makefile:

cd whitepaper
make pdf

To generate a pretty-bare bones HTML version:

pandoc -F pandoc-crossref --citeproc --number-sections index.md -o index.html --mathjax --standalone

To generate a workable LaTeX file:

pandoc -F pandoc-crossref --citeproc --number-sections index.md -o index.tex --standalone

To generate a default PDF version via LaTeX:

pandoc -F pandoc-crossref --citeproc --number-sections index.md -o index.pdf