I have made no secret in the past about my stance on the use of plaintext in academia: we need more of it. Enough with proprietary formats like Word; surely academics can learn to use Emacs iA Writer or BBEdit or something of the sort with Git and Pandoc. Duke’s Kieran Healy has an excellent guide for social scientists to work in plaintext using just these tools. Although a bit outdated (just a bit e.g. --citeproc now exists and Sublime text 3 is in the past now) it is still a terrific, all...
