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{ Monthly Archives } February 2008

C-x M-c M-butterfly

Richard Stallman steps down as the emacs maintainer. Perhaps carried away on butterfly wings…

2008 02 23 Mark Eli Kalderon Text
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Cha-cha-changes

Changes is out of beta with a 1.0 release. Changes allows you to compare diretories and files and is Leopard only taking advantage of Core Animation and Quick Look. Offering editor support for BBEdit, TextWrangler, TextMate, and Xcode and version control integration for Subversion, CVS, Perforce, Mercurial, Git, Bazaar, and Darcs, Changes is shaping up […]

2008 02 20 Mark Eli Kalderon BBEdit
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Do Androids Dream in Monospace Fonts?

Continuing the series of posts on monospace fonts, we consider the question “Do androids dream in monospace fonts?”

Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation has designed the Droid Typeface Family for the Open Handest Alliance’s Android platform. Released under the Apache license, Droid Sans Mono is an attractive monospace font.

It is not without its limitations, however:

No bold […]

2008 02 17 Mark Eli Kalderon Font
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DPCustomMono2

I have been planning a follow up to my previous post about monospace fonts. This is not the planned follow up. However, background reserarch has uncovered an interesting monospace font with special properties. DPCustomMono2, commissioned by Distributed Proofreaders, is designed to maximize the legibility of text for the purposes of proofreading. Given the special context, […]

2008 02 11 Mark Eli Kalderon Font
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Ted Goranson Returns

At least for this month. About This Particular Outliner last appeared in November 2006. The promised review of writing applications on OS X has not surfaced, but something perhaps even more exciting has:

It’s time for a major advance, and guess what? After daydreaming, designing, and proposing, I am now actually building something. It’s […]

2008 02 10 Mark Eli Kalderon Outliner Comments (0)

Why Give Up Word …

… at least if you are a Mac User.

It seems that feature parity between Word on Windows and on the Mac is nothing but empty spin. See here.

While naturally curious about the “new and improved” equation editor, Mac users who write technical material remain better served by LaTeX.

Update: Part of the disappointment, here, is that […]

2008 02 10 Mark Eli Kalderon Word Comments (0)

Plain Text Notes and Message URLs in Leopard

Leopard has a small feature that I have often longed for. All my notes are text files in markdown format. URI schemes extend the usefulness of the medium. With the file URI scheme I can link to other files, and with the mailto URI scheme I can send emails. But one thing that I have […]

2008 02 01 Mark Eli Kalderon Markdown
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