#sci-writing: drafting the old fashioned way

This post is related to:

1. http://erwinirawansblog.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/bibliography-and-markdown.html
2. http://erwinirawansblog.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/toc-in-markdown-doc.html

Why I draft mostly in txt or rtf format: 

• it's light on my drive space, 
• notepad is always in everyone's machine n smartphones, 
• it's virusfree
• it allows me to move freely across multiple OS (Mac,Win,Linux), 
• it allows me to move between wordprocessor (even different Word version can give u trouble)

When drafting, I usually put my graphs and tables list at the end of the file. 

After enough drafting, then I polish the format, insert the graphs-tables, and make a second n 3rd draft in LibreOffice or LaTeX.

Or it even goes simpler for R users:

• Type your draft using R Markdown
• Then with "knitr" package type on your R prompt:

> library(knitr)
> pandoc('foo.md', format='html')  # to convert from markdown to HTML
> pandoc('foo.md', format='latex') # to convert from markdown to LaTeX/PDF        > pandoc('foo.md', format='docx')  # to convert from markdown to MS Word          > pandoc('foo.md', format='odt')   # to convert from markdown to OpenDocument

:-) {@dasaptaerwin}