Intro.md

# Introduction

This template lets you write awesome looking Dissertations in Markdown.

## Why would you want to do this

 - It looks better
 - You have nicer references
 - You can use whatever tools you want to write (IE not stuck with Word)

## Installation Instructions

### Getting the Template
TODO:  Instructions on Submodules etc here.

First we want to download the Template, which can be found at <https://github.coventry.ac.uk/aa9863/markdown_dissertation>.  There are two options here:

 1. Clone my Repository
 1. Make use of Submodules to do it

### Other Requirements

You will also need a copy of:

 - Pandoc
 - LaTeX

## Behind the Scenes

Template is based on the (unofficial) Latex Coventry Universtiy Thesis
template <https://github.com/GR8DAN/coventry-thesis>.

Pandoc is used to convert from Markdown to text, with some custom
export templates to glue everything together.

It should work on Windows / Mac and Linux