Portions of my masters thesis work, which was never published officially, could be pretty easily adapted to a very comprehensively answer to a question on Programmers about Particle Swarm Optimization.
However, I foolishly wisely1 chose to write it in LaTeX which means I cannot just copy/paste it into the "Answer" text box there, at least (I could copy... the entire document I guess and tell people to use TeX to read it?).
The main concerns I have relate to the mathematical notation and references. Text/headings could be pretty straightforward to modify into markdown syntax.
Something like:
\begin{align*} \labeltarget{eq:opproblem}
&\operatorname{Minimize}& & F_p(\bar{x}) \quad & &p=1,\dots,l & &\text{\nameref{sec:objectivefunction}}\\
&\operatorname{Subject\;To} & &g_j(\bar{x}) \leq 0, \quad & &j= 1,\dots,m & &\text{\nameref{sec:inequalityconstraints}} \\
&&&h_k(\bar{x}) = 0, \quad & &k= 1, \dots,p & &\text{\nameref{sec:equalityconstraints}} \\
&&&x_{low,i} \le x_{i} \le x_{up,i}, \quad & &i = 1, \dots,n & &\text{\nameref{sec:sideconstraints}}
\end{align*}
Would be great to auto convert via [insert magical process I don't know]. I could take screenshots of them, I guess...
There are also a lot of pieces like:
\noindent with $\bar{x}$ representing \hyperref[sec:designvariables]{design variables} for the optimization problem \cite{vanderplaats}.
Which would be.. tedious at best to go through and change.
Is there any straightforward way to minimize the tediousness of converting a TeX document to SE markdown syntax?
1: My advisor also required a Word document during the process (???) and the amount of times I've tried to convert from TeX is making me sick. Fortunately it's more fun than going backwards!
