A mini D book: Markdown or LaTeX?

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 27 January 2017 at 12:02:01 UTC, Chris wrote:
>
> Yes, you are right of course. In a perfect world we'd just 
> write a text and give the odd reference. Unfortunately, anyone 
> who writes an M.A., M.Sc. or Ph.D. thesis has to reference 
> everything. Not even the most basic concept can be mentioned 
> without referencing a book written by some professor(s). If a 
> student writes "1 + 1 = 2" s/he has to reference it with a 
> footnote à la "[1] Smith, T. & Wesson, J. Basic Concepts of 
> Arithmetics - An Introduction. Cambridge, 2001."
>
> If you fail to do so, they will grill you. I know, it's 
> ridiculous. Having said this, depending on the topic, you do 
> need to insert footnotes - either to guide / help your readers 
> or to shut up potential critics :-)

Law articles are the worst with footnotes. Sometimes they'll have 
a whole page of footnotes with like one line of text at the top.