timtylin
Is this project alive?
Hi!
@timtylin, are you still actively developing this project? Based on the commits, it's hard to decide whether the development is completely abandoned or just suspended for a couple of month.
Gabor
It's "active" in the sense that I still think about it everyday, but most of the work is behind the scenes. I'm building a few things that are not directly related to the Scholdoc parser codebase (more like services and backends that makes it easier to integrate into other projects).
I'm still actively working on the Scholdoc code. In fact, I'm in the middle of reconciling it with the latest Pandoc stable release. Github activity has been slow mostly due to me busy finishing my phd for the past half a year. I'm officially done in October, so things should be back on a more regular schedule then.
Aside from maintenance of the codebase, I'm thinking more on enhancements to the Scholarly Markdown extension. A lot of this has to do with coming up with good syntaxes and abstractions. I've been monitoring a lot of the discussions over at the Pandoc mailing list as well as the CommonMark forum. There are also some cool ideas from Madoko that I think could apply to Scholmd.
Also, I am openly recruiting existing academic papers/publication to use as demos of how to rewrite them in Scholmd. If you're interested, I'd certainly like to hear about it.
I'm actually interested in using Markdown for educational materials. I experimented with a lot of Markdown flavors, e.g.:
- https://github.com/FTSRG/lecture-notes/wiki (GitHub Flavored Markdown for course syllabi & laboratories)
- https://github.com/FTSRG/remo (Madoko for course syllabi & exercises)
- https://github.com/FTSRG/remo-elagazo (Pandoc Markdown for exercises)
- https://github.com/FTSRG/thesis-template-markdown (Pandoc Markdown for a thesis template)
Of course, none of the solutions are perfect, so I am still searching for the best Markdown implementation for higher education -- this is how I discovered scholdoc. I might be able to drop in the development later (both writing docs & code) and see what we can make of this. (I never used Haskell previously, but I'm open to learn it.)
In case it is of interest, I have been writing my last two astrophysics papers using Scholdoc. They'renot published yet, but once they are, I can drop a link. I also made a template for articles for The Astrophysical Journal.
@thriveth that's great! I'll be sure to drop a link into the examples repo once they're up.
@timtylin any news on development?
I must admit, that Scholdoc impressed me back then before I stumbled upon DocOnce which has been used for papers, wikis, several books (!), quizzes, simple web pages, etc.
At the moment, it looks like Schldoc has been abandoned...? Not even critical installation issues are being addressed. Maybe it would be a good idea to write in the README that development has seized?
I would happily provide a couple example papers for the examples repo, but frankly, it seems like I\m two years late to the party?
Has there been any consideration about sending the here-implemented ScholarlyMarkdown support upstream? There has been no discussion so far in the pandoc issue tracker.
