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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Scientific writing&#xA;&#xA;So carrying on with a similar theme as yesterday,  I found an interesting article posted to the Fediverse looking at Markdown vs. LaTeX for Scientific Writing&#xA;&#xA;So am sharing here as it may be of interest.&#xA;&#xA;Related Links&#xA;&#xA;Overleaf&#xA;  Overleaf documentation&#xA;  Writefull&#xA;LaTeX Project&#xA;  Learn LaTeX&#xA;  LaTeX Forum&#xA;  CTAN&#xA;  TeX Live&#xA;  Detexify &#xA;  MathJax&#xA;  Jabref &#xA;  CiteDrive&#xA;    Blog post - citation manager for Overleaf&#xA;&#xA;Tags&#xA;&#xA;#Science,#Writing,#LaTeX,#Markdown,#Comparison&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;table&#xD;&#xA;thead&#xD;&#xA;trtda rel=&#34;me&#34; href=&#34;https://qoto.org/@zleap&#34;Mastodon/a/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://wiki.ircnow.org/?n=Shelllabs.Intro&#34;ShellLabs/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://joinmastodon.org/&#34;Join Mastodon/a/td/tr/thead/table&#xD;&#xA;center&#xD;&#xA;AI statement : b Consent is NOT granted to use the content of this blog for the purposes of AI training or similar activity.  Consent CANNOT be assumed, it has to be granted. /b&#xD;&#xA;/center&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xD;&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
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<p>So carrying on with a similar theme as yesterday,  I found an interesting article posted to the Fediverse looking at <a href="https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/blog/2021-08-18-Markdown_vs_LaTeX/" rel="nofollow">Markdown vs. LaTeX for Scientific Writing</a></p>

<p>So am sharing here as it may be of interest.</p>

<p><strong>Related Links</strong></p>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.overleaf.com/" rel="nofollow">Overleaf</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.overleaf.com/learn" rel="nofollow">Overleaf documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.writefull.com/" rel="nofollow">Writefull</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="https://www.latex-project.org/" rel="nofollow">LaTeX Project</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.learnlatex.org/" rel="nofollow">Learn LaTeX</a></li>
<li><a href="https://latex.org/forum/" rel="nofollow">LaTeX Forum</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://tug.org/texlive/" rel="nofollow">TeX Live</a></li>
<li><a href="http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html" rel="nofollow">Detexify</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.mathjax.org/" rel="nofollow">MathJax</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.jabref.org/" rel="nofollow">Jabref</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.citedrive.com/" rel="nofollow">CiteDrive</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.overleaf.com/blog/citedrive-easy-reference-management-for-overleaf" rel="nofollow">Blog post – citation manager for Overleaf</a></li></ul></li></ul>

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<p><a href="/paulsutton/tag:Science" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Science</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Writing" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Writing</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:LaTeX" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">LaTeX</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Markdown" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Markdown</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Comparison" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Comparison</span></a></p>

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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2023 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Messenger App Comparison</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Messenger App Comparison&#xA;&#xA;img src=&#34;https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/uploads/default/original/1X/6aac842b7ff5c58385a02f3a131c259281be88c8.png&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34; &#xA;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xA;&#xA;Further to the post yesterday.  This was posted to Mastodon, This comparison has been put together by the Free Software Foundation, India.  That compares various Free and Non Free applications.   Good to understand why we need to use decentralized, privacy aware tools. &#xA;&#xA;Messenger app comparison&#xA;&#xA;REFERENCES&#xA;&#xA;Dino IM&#xA;Element IM&#xA;QuickSy IM&#xA;&#xA;Briar&#xA;Tox&#xA;Jami&#xA;&#xA;Free Software Foundation, India&#xA;Free Software Foundation&#xA;&#xA;TAGS&#xA;&#xA;#YearOfTheFediverse,#Messenger,#app,#comparison&#xA;&#xA;a rel=&#34;license&#34; href=&#34;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/&#34;img alt=&#34;Creative Commons Licence&#34; style=&#34;border-width:0&#34; src=&#34;https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png&#34; //abr /This work is licensed under a a rel=&#34;license&#34; href=&#34;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/&#34;Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License/a&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;table&#xD;&#xA;thead&#xD;&#xA;trtda rel=&#34;me&#34; href=&#34;https://qoto.org/@zleap&#34;Mastodon/a/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://wiki.ircnow.org/?n=Shelllabs.Intro&#34;ShellLabs/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://joinmastodon.org/&#34;Join Mastodon/a/td/tr/thead/table&#xD;&#xA;center&#xD;&#xA;AI statement : b Consent is NOT granted to use the content of this blog for the purposes of AI training or similar activity.  Consent CANNOT be assumed, it has to be granted. /b&#xD;&#xA;/center&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xD;&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
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<p>Further to the post <a href="https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/messenger-apps" rel="nofollow">yesterday</a>.  This was posted to Mastodon, This comparison has been put together by the Free Software Foundation, India.  That compares various Free and Non Free applications.   Good to understand why we need to use decentralized, privacy aware tools.</p>

<p><img src="https://fsf.org.in/assets/img/ims.png" alt="Messenger app comparison"></p>

<p><strong>REFERENCES</strong></p>
<ul><li><a href="https://dino.im/" rel="nofollow">Dino IM</a></li>
<li><a href="https://element.io/" rel="nofollow">Element IM</a></li>

<li><p><a href="https://quicksy.im/" rel="nofollow">QuickSy IM</a></p></li>

<li><p><a href="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.briarproject.briar.android/" rel="nofollow">Briar</a></p></li>

<li><p><a href="https://tox.chat/" rel="nofollow">Tox</a></p></li>

<li><p><a href="https://jami.net/" rel="nofollow">Jami</a></p></li>

<li><p><a href="https://fsf.org.in" rel="nofollow">Free Software Foundation, India</a></p></li>

<li><p><a href="https://www.fsf.org" rel="nofollow">Free Software Foundation</a></p></li></ul>

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