New RStudio shows many useful features to make dynamic documents. We could write Rmd and output word document and PDF. However, when I try to write Chinese in Rmd and convert it into PDF, the Chinese characters is missing. @Yihui added a new feature fig.showtext which allow us to show Chinese in the plot. Still, the Chinese words in the content are missing. I refer to a lot of posts and find the only way might be using the Rnw to write plain tex document. But I just want to use Rmd!
Then I review the PDF generation process and find the key is the md to tex. Rmarkdown use …