Rongcui Dong's Site - LaTeX Blog?

Markdown is nice for writing blogs, but converting it to PDF can be difficult. How about writing blogs in LaTeX? This page is such an attempt.

Sections

Obviously, sections are equivalent to <h1> while subsections are <h2>. Referencing sections like (Section ) does not work yet, as of the time of writing. Of course, it is possible for this example to work in some future time when I fix it.

Equations

No LaTeXdocument (Note the \LaTeX command eats a space) is complete without an equation:

\[\oiint_{\partial\Omega} \mathbf{E} \cdot \mathrm{d}\mathbf{S} = {1\over\epsilon_0}\iiint_\Omega \rho \mathrm{d}V\]

Again, labeling does not seem to work. This is probably related to how I hacked in KaTeX, and that I do not have pandoc-crossref enabled yet.

Now, let’s try aligned:

\[\begin{aligned} \oiint_{\partial\Omega} \mathbf{E} \cdot \mathrm{d}\mathbf{S} &= {1\over\epsilon_0}\iiint_\Omega \rho \mathrm{d}V \\ \oiint_{\partial\Omega} \mathbf{B} \cdot \mathrm{d}\mathbf{S} &= 0 \\ \oint_{\partial\Sigma} \mathbf{E} \cdot \mathrm{d}\mathbf{l} &= -{\mathrm{d}\over\mathrm{d}t} \iint_\Sigma \mathbf{B} \cdot \mathrm{d}\mathbf{S} \\ \oint_{\partial\Sigma}\mathbf{B} \cdot \mathrm{d}\mathbf{l} &= \mu_0\left(\iint_\Sigma \mathbf{J}\cdot \mathrm{d}\mathbf{S} + \epsilon_0{\mathrm{d}\over\mathrm{d}t}\iint_\Sigma \mathbf{E}\cdot\mathrm{d}\mathbf{S} \right) \end{aligned}\]

Obvously, this works. However, LaTeX seems to be a bit overkill for a blogging environment. The fine-grain controls on typesetting does not really work after HTML generation, and equations are limited to KaTeX support anyways.

So... I will probably stick to Markdown for this blog. I know there is Asciidoc which stands between Markdown and LaTeX in the spectrum of free-flow vs structured, but Pandoc cannot read Asciidoc yet.