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{ Monthly Archives } May 2007

Parting Observation

The current series of posts about subversion:

Subversion Subversion, Serendipity, and Discipline Subversion and the Single User LaTeX and Subversion Circle Six Subversion Subverting Difference Subversion and TextMate

have ended, but I wanted to make one last observation. For authors producing complex documents whose development they need to track, what’s important is version control, not necessarily subversion. There are a variety of version […]

RIP PDFView

In a thread on Skim’s forum Andrea Bergia writes:

Hello, I am the developer of PDFView, an application which seems superseded by your wonderful Skim in many regards. I actually plan to use it as my default PDF reader

And in a follow up, he writes.

I am seriously thinking about declaring […]

Helvetica Turns Fifty

Based on the sans serif typeface Akzidenz Grotesk, Helvetica was designed by Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann in 1957 for the Haas Type Foundry (later assimilated by Linotype). Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, its name was updated to Helvetica apparently derived from the latin name for Switzerland—Helvetia. Caught up in an enthusiasm for Swiss modernist […]

Subversion and TextMate

Another post in my series on subversion, a free, open source version control system:

Subversion Subversion, Serendipity, and Discipline Subversion and the Single User LaTeX and Subversion Circle Six Subversion Subverting Difference

Today we’ll look at three ways that subversion interacts with my favorite text editor, TextMate:

TextMate’s subversion repository TextMate’s subversion integration Keeping local modifications to TextMate in sync across multiple computers with subversion

TextMate’s […]

Skim, Now with Pdfsync Support!

In an earlier post, I indulged in some hand-wringing at Skim’s lack of support for pdfsync and Michael McCracken’s suggestion that pdfsync may be incompatible with Skim’s note-taking features. The good news is that this turns out not to be the case and Skim now supports pdfsync.

Open Office Goes Native

Sun Microsystems has announced that it will be joining OpenOffice.org in porting its office suite to Mac OS X. Open Office currently runs on OS X in and X11 environment. NeoOffice is a fork of that project that provides a Java port for OS X. But it is slooow and Mac users tend to not […]

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