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> overkill

To write my hard sci-fi novel, I wrote a cross-platform Markdown editor so that I could use interpolated variables along with R code:

https://keenwrite.com/screenshots.html

ConTeXt produces the PDF files. I also developed a few calculators to help confirm physics and other plot-related aspects:

https://autonoma.ca/calculators/

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Do you have somewhere an article or similar about the motivation behind this project, i.e. how did you went from "I write a novel" to "I need to write my own editor to write my novel"? That would be really interesting!

The closest would be the Typesetting Markdown series, which centers around using interpolated strings as variables inside prose:

https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/05/22/typesetting-markdow...

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