Thoughts for academic Markdown in a future version of Scrivener

Wow, y’all. You’ve gone DEEP. I recently completed a scholarly book using Scrivener+pandoc. It had lots of math and cross-references, but only seven tables and three figures. I had thought my personal Scrivener project was highly customized, but now I realize it might as well be made by Playskool, given that I can’t follow one-tenth of this conversation about desirable features for academic writing with markdown.

In my case, the essential things I had to pin down before writing the book were (1) a way to handle and cross-reference equations and chapters/sections, and (2) a universal way to designate when text after an equation or block quote should not be indented. By “universal” I mean a procedure that works whether or not one is outputting to pdf/tex or docx. @AmberV helped me figure out best practices for both, and I’m really happy with the resulting setup.

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