papel

A raw text document router for writing papers in APA format

Instructions

• Write your paper within raw.txt
• Press return twice to create a new paragraph

The quick brown fox jumps over the 
lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps
over the lazy dog.

This is a new paragraph because it
is separated by a new line from the
previous paragraph.

• Separate your works cited, or references section with a newline followed by a forward slash

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
/
Doe, J. (2020). Papel README. Retrieved from https://github.com/walz0/papel/README.md

• Two newlines creates a new citation

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
/
Walz, A. (2020). Papel README. 
Retrieved from https://github.com/walz0/papel/README.md

Walz, A. (2020). A new citation. Retrieved from https://github.com/walz0/papel/README.md

• When you are finished writing, run papel.py. This will generate output.html which will contain your formatted paper. To convert to pdf, open output.html in your browser and press CTRL+P, select print to PDF. Standard APA margins are 1 inch on all sides, make sure to disable headers / footers.
• If you wish to change some of the styling options you can run papel.py with additional parameters:

  -s :: font-size
  -i :: text-indent
  -h :: line-height
  
  Syntax: python3 main.py -s 18 -i 50 -h 20