In my first post I described how I gave up Word. For those engaged in academic writing, or the production of certain kinds of complex documents, there’s reason to do so as well. To follow this up, I would like to bring your attention to Marko Pinteric comparison of Word and LaTeX:
Although Word […]
As a follow up to the last post about the latest manifestation of the Editor Wars, I want to concur with Erik J. Barzeski’s complaint about TextMate’s lack of chunk undo. However, having used TextMate’s character undo, I can see that, in certain contexts, it has its advantages. Personally, I would like the best of […]
TextMate has got some attention recently for its Halloween easter egg, mostly, but not solely, positive. (See this TUAW post and this post from the TextMate Blog.) This was reflected in the change-log removing the holiday stylings that some consider to be the Best. Change-Log. Ever.:
[REMOVED] TextMate no longer pays tribute […]
Randsinrepose has a post about a UI virtue of TextMate—Bright, Patient Design:
Bright, Patient Design is knowing that you are going to need to tell people what they want, but having the patience to know they need to discover they need it. It is choosing to stay out of their way while they […]
I love LaTeX. But some things that are easy to do are just not obvious, especially to the uninitiated. Like word count. Someone recently asked me how to determine the word count of a LaTeX document. The problem is that we want to ignore the LaTeX markup, so just counting ‘words’ with:
wc -w
is going […]
As I mentioned in my initial post, learning about the UNIX underpinnings of OS X was a revelation. While I would never like to work exclusively in a text based terminal, a lot of UNIX utilities can be exploited by writers as well as coders. While visual editing familiar from word processors tends to obscure […]
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