texmark 0.13.0

Write scientific articles in Markdown and convert them to journal-ready LaTeX/PDF (Copernicus, Science, AMS, AGU, Nature, Elsevier, PNAS, arXiv, ...)

texmark

Write scientific articles in markdown — and submit them to any journal.

• Instant preview. Markdown renders live in most editors (VS Code, Cursor, JetBrains, vim) and on GitHub itself, so you see your draft as you type. No more wait-on-pdflatex cycles every time you change a sentence.
• Git + GitHub as a paper backend. Branches, pull requests, issues, blame, and diffs work the way they were designed to. Collaborators review changes with the same tooling they already use for code.
• One source, any journal. texmark compiles your markdown to any of the supported LaTeX templates. Start writing first, decide on a target journal later, and switch mid-way (or after rejection) by flipping a single yaml field — no rewriting needed.
• No lock-in. The intermediate .tex is right there next to the PDF. Unplug texmark whenever you want and continue the manuscript in plain LaTeX — useful for the final polish that journals usually demand.

📖 Documentation

Full documentation lives at https://perrette.github.io/texmark/:

• Installation (incl. external dependencies)
• Quickstart
• Journal templates
• YAML reference
• Guides: equations, multi-file projects, custom preamble, encoding, figures, build backends, live preview, custom LaTeX templates

Installation

pip install texmark

texmark also needs pandoc and a LaTeX distribution (pdflatex, bibtex, latexmk). See the installation page for the per-platform details.

Quickstart

See example.md for a sample markdown file with yaml metadata in the header.

texmark example.md          # markdown → tex
texmark example.md --pdf    # markdown → pdf

For another journal, change the journal -> template field in the yaml metadata, or pass -j for a quick test:

texmark example.md --pdf -j science -o build/example-science.pdf --tex build/example-science.tex

See the quickstart and journal templates pages for more.

Acknowledgements

This project benefited greatly from AI support to extend the initial list of supported journals and further extend this package capability.