A similar effort of introducing math/figures/refs into markdown is the `softcover markdown` syntax. It's basically markdown, with latex commands allowed:
The beautiful idea in markdown is that it allows you to mix (non-container) HTML tags in with the .md and it just works. Softcover markdown is in the same vein, allowing the more readable markdown for main copy, and intermix LaTeX tags as required. Beautiful if you ask me. Or at least beautifuler than ```math ... ```math.
The "backward compatibility" of ScholarlyMarkdown with basic markdown is a cool feature as many tools/plarforms exist that "support" .md now, but to preview you'll still need something that renders the equations, so strictly speaking ScholarlyMarkdown is a new markup langauge.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/softcover/softcover_book/m...
The beautiful idea in markdown is that it allows you to mix (non-container) HTML tags in with the .md and it just works. Softcover markdown is in the same vein, allowing the more readable markdown for main copy, and intermix LaTeX tags as required. Beautiful if you ask me. Or at least beautifuler than ```math ... ```math.
The "backward compatibility" of ScholarlyMarkdown with basic markdown is a cool feature as many tools/plarforms exist that "support" .md now, but to preview you'll still need something that renders the equations, so strictly speaking ScholarlyMarkdown is a new markup langauge.