Text Document Workflow Stack

Consolidated notes with Claude

PDF

  • pandoc → LaTeX (xelatex) for PDF documents (handouts, screenshare materials)
  • Template: KOMA-Script (scrbook), LuaLaTeX as engine
  • scrlayer-scrpage for footers, enumitem for list spacing
  • Typst deferred until ecosystem matures (~2028 revisit)

Ebook

  • Multi-chapter book project: footnote management across chapter files

HTML

  • (if I need html) pandoc for aerc +hard_line_breaks Email workflow
  • zola for static webpage (CommonMark)

Practices

  • Next book: one sentence per line in markdown, for easier editing
  • At work: “bulletesque” style with hard_line_breaks enabled