I don’t know if a great online markdown editor yet exists. pubpub is sadly being shut down. I did use hedgedoc for accepting submissions for a small conference recently, it worked well although not sure it would scale to the needs of NIME.
It’s easy enough to have markdown compile to LaTeX and then use the NIME template from there. However then you lose the ability to publish the proceedings in accessible (i.e. non-pdf) form, with interactive figures.
It’s a pretty good idea, maybe a better idea than the Word template.
NIME has moved back to PDF from PubPub in the last few years, so in that sense we wouldn’t lose anything in interactivity.
Anything on proceedings format needs to be discussed at board level, but do you have a proof of concept showing how this can work with the NIME LaTeX template? I’m particularly interested in whether it can handle references properly.
That’s a great idea, we should definitely give it a try. Pandoc should be able to compile a PDF from a .bib + .md + .yaml files I guess, which should not overburden authors.
