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thangalin ◴[10 Apr 25 18:51 UTC] No.43646979[source]▶
Tangentially, R can help produce living Markdown documents (.Rmd files). A couple of ways include pandoc with knitr[0] or my FOSS text editor, KeenWrite[1]. I've kept the R syntax in KeenWrite compatible with knitr. Living documents as part of a build process can produce PDFs that are always up-to-date with respect to external data sources[2], which includes source code.

[0]: https://yihui.org/knitr/

[1]: https://keenwrite.com/

[2]: https://youtu.be/XSbTF3E5p7Q?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9KWzP...

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haberman ◴[10 Apr 25 19:42 UTC] No.43647376[source]▶
There is also Quarto, which I have had a good experience with: https://quarto.org/
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1. shepherdjerred ◴[10 Apr 25 22:26 UTC] No.43648606[source]▶
I'm more excited about https://typst.app/
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2. Onawa ◴[10 Apr 25 22:49 UTC] No.43648723[source]▶
Quarto can output to Typst (as well as many other outputs simultaneously, e.g. .docx, HTML, PDF, PPT, etc) for it's typesetting capabilities. https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/typst.html
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3. kerkeslager ◴[11 Apr 25 03:44 UTC] No.43650317[source]▶
Typst has been the biggest discovery in my technical toolkit in the last year. Such a huge step up from LaTeX, and I never thought I'd say that.