An Introduction to Markdown and Pandoc

Suggested readings:

• A Plain Text Workflow for Academic Writing Blogpost

• Getting Started: What is Markdown and Why Use It?

• What is Pandoc?

• Installing Pandoc

Plaintext editors to consider:

• We warmly recommend Visual Studio Code
• Gedit - minimalistic and tidy
• Notepad++ - good for Windows and available in UiO’s Software centre
• Atom, good for academic texts but no longer supported