texmark

Write scientific articles in Markdown and convert them to journal-ready LaTeX and PDF.

• Preview while writing. Markdown renders in most editors (VS Code, JetBrains, vim) and on GitHub — equations included — so you can read a draft without running a LaTeX build.
• Lightweight, portable text. Markdown uses much less markup than LaTeX, so the source stays readable and works with ordinary tools: edit it on GitHub, version it with Git (branches, diffs, pull requests), or paste it into a Google Doc to draft interactively with collaborators who prefer that, then bring it back.
• One source, several journal templates. The same Markdown compiles to any of the supported LaTeX templates; changing the target journal means editing one field in the YAML header rather than reformatting the text.
• LaTeX output is kept. The generated .tex sits next to the PDF, so you can stop using texmark at any point and continue in LaTeX directly — usually necessary for the final journal-specific adjustments anyway.

Get started

pip install texmark
texmark example.md --pdf

• Installation — pandoc, LaTeX, and the per-platform details.
• Quickstart — your first markdown → PDF build.
• Journal templates — Copernicus, Science, AMS, AGU, Nature, Elsevier, PNAS, arXiv, …
• YAML reference — every front-matter field in one place.

Guides

• Numbered equations
• Multi-file projects — chapters, supplementary information, cross-references.
• Custom preamble
• Encoding (Unicode & HTML)
• Figure paths
• Build backends and engines
• Live preview
• Custom LaTeX templates

From the same author

A few other open-source tools I maintain.

Scientific writing & data

• papers — command-line BibTeX bibliography and PDF library manager.
• datamanifest — declarative, reproducible dataset management. (See also the datamanifest.toml format spec and the DataManifest.jl Julia port.)

Speech to Text (dictate) and Text to Speech (read-aloud) tools

• scribe — speech-to-text dictation.
• bard — text-to-speech reader.