Coming soon, from the BibDesk development team, a new open source project, Skim. Skim is a PDF reader with enhanced note-taking features. While not yet released, you can request a beta version on the user mailing list. Skim is a welcome addition to an increasing range of alternatives (including PDFView and TeXniscope) to Adobe Acrobat […]
Serendipity can be good. After my last post, a discussion of the pros and cons of subversion emerged in this thread of the Textmate mailing list. Though focused on web development, many of the insights are generalizable. I am not involved in web development, nor am I a programmer. But I do keep LaTeX documents, […]
In my first post, I reported my discovery that a lot of tools that programmers use are, in fact, readily adaptable to the task of writing. In a previous post I discussed diff programs—programs for comparing differences between text files. In this post, I will be discussing version control.
Programmers and writers face at least one […]
Once upon a time, authors would send their manuscripts to their publisher where a copy editor would mark up the manuscript with instructions for the typesetter. (The origin, by the way, of the modern conception of a markup language such as HTML, LaTeX, or Markdown—if, indeed, it is one). This was only feasible if the […]
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