I won a new grant (yaay!) and dipping my toes in the role of PI in my university. For now, I will have a PhD, a post doc and a couple of masters students in my team.
In all my previous labs, everything was on paper and very poorly documented (…don’t ask). I myself used to use LaTeX to keep a “neat” labnote. Obviously, it is not easy to collaborate and work with others.
Any researchers here who have experience hosting their own e-lab book in their labs?
I feel you. Using word is like going backwards.
Especially technical docs should never be in word. Converting markdown to html is so easy but I get where you are.
The code snippets are the worst part. God forbid I ever have to update them because I have to manually indent every line in them correctly
Oh shit. I’d try pandoc md to docx conversion. No idea if it works for your case
Unfortunately not because the word document is meant to be the “master” document. We aren’t even supposed to export PDF versions because in the future people may see the PDF in the folder and use that as a reference instead of the main word document even though the word doc was updated and the PDF wasn’t. Also I tried pandoc md conversion to docx in the past for another document and it didn’t go very well. The formatting of the headers was all over the place which made it impossible to generate the Table of Contents in word
Ok, sounds not so good. What about only using the converson for the snippets?
I guess that might work. I’ll have to try it on monday though it’s probably more effort this way compared to just doing it manually since the snippets I have to add currently are mostly single functions with less than 20 lines
Why doing it manually when you can simply automate it /s