Appendix A — Tools and software
These are the tools I’ve used in creating this website (and the thesis that comes of it).
Document production
- Markdown
- All documents are written in some form of Markdown, casually using the Macdown open source Markdown editor for macOS. Pandoc is used to generate stand-alone documents from markdown source. Diagrams in these documents are produced using mermaid or GraphViz.
- Quarto
- is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system that is used to create websites and documents in the PhD project. The pdf file is built using Mathew Topper’s thesis template (Topper 2023).
- Visual Studio Code
- I use various text tools but the source files are mostly edited in VS Code as an integrated IDE. Janis DD’s Edit CSV plugin is useful for text-based data file editing.