Subversion allows you to compare the differences between revisions of a given document with the command:
svn diff
Let’s begin with the simplest and most common use of this command. But first a bit of terminology. Each time a change is committed to the repository its revision number increments. Revision keywords can be used instead of revision […]
There is a nice piece in the Stanford Magazine about Donald Knuth author of TeX and METAFONT. Frustration with the quality of mathematical typesetting and the fact that publishers were moving from manual to digital layout prompted Knuth to write TeX:
It had changed into a problem of bits, zeroes and ones. You put […]
Rebecca Morelle of the BBC reports that advanced imaging technology revealed that a medieval prayer book containing within it works by Archimedes and Hyperides also contains a third text, a commentary on Aristotle’s Categories by Alexander of Aphrodisias.
The prayer book was written by the thirteenth century scribe John Myronas. Dr. Noel describes the production of […]
Smultron, Peter Borg’s open source text editor for Mac OS X, has just ticked past version three. It has an impressive list of features including one or two that I would like to see in TextMate:
Full screen viewing Window splitting—horizontal and vertical. Nice.
Other features include:
Project window Tabbed viewing Snippets—smart text insertion—a TextMate concept now implemented in a number […]
I am a theme whore. Not only have I downloaded all the themes on the TextMate Wiki, I have tried my hand at making my own. Switching between themes helps cut down the eye-strain, and some are better suited to different ambient lighting conditions than others. But there is more to this inconstancy. Though irrational, […]
Hackers broke into a State Department office in East Asia last summer with a Word document. Ted Bridis of the AP reports:
Donald R. Reid, the senior security coordinator for the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, also confirmed that a limited amount of U.S. government data was stolen by the hackers until tripwires severed all […]
Joan Acocella’s review of the Iron Whim, a history of the typewriter that I discussed in an earlier post, has apparently prompted a minor dispute in Nietzsche scholarship.
Nigel Warbuton of the Open University reports Accocela’s claim that Nietzsche used a typewriter. Indeed he owned the Hansen writing ball:
The writing ball was developed by the Danish […]
I will continue to post about subversion, but for now, I thought I would point you to the Circle Six Blog, where Brett Terpstra of Circle Six Design and fellow TextMate user has a series of posts on subversion. While focused on web design, all interested in using subversion for version control could benefit. Highly […]
LaTeX is great for complex documents. (Of course, other forms of markup are good as well. DocBook comes to mind.) When working on a complex LaTeX document, it is important, nay, imperative to keep it in some form of version control. (The necessity may not be apparent until you actually use version control—if you don’t, […]
As promised, a post about subversion workflow, but first some basic concepts.
Commit
Remember being taught journalism in high school English class? A good story must provide answers to four questions: “Who?”, “What?”, “When?”, and “Where?” Or so we were taught.
When you commit a change, subversion records four pieces of information:
Subversion records WHO committed the change Subversion records […]
Patch Tuesday (when Microsoft releases security patches) has just rolled around and not too surprisingly zero-day vulnerabilities have surfaced. This time in Word 2007. Mati Ahorni of Offensive Security posted three bugs on a security mailing list. These were malformed Word documents. Two crashed the machine and one caused a buffer overflow in wwlib.dll that […]
OK, so there have been two recent posts about Skim, and while I was pleased to see this new entry to PDF viewers on Mac OS X, for every silver lining there is a dark cloud…
On the Sourceforge [tracker](http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=1693191&group_id=192583&atid=941984), Andrea Bergia, PDFView’s developer, writes:
Hello, I am the developer of PDFView, an application […]
As this blog is about the technology of writing, perhaps it is not too far off topic to post about its history.
The New Yorker currently has a review of The Iron Whim, A Fragmented History of the Typewriter by Darren Wershler-Henry.
While writing machines were being designed since at least the eighteenth century (many with the […]
Skim, a PDF viewer and note-taker for scientific papers is available today as a public beta. Haven’t had time to play with it much yet, but the note-taking features seem well thought out. See the online manual. If you are running OS X and need to annotate PDFs extensively, check it out.
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