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I don't know anyone who would ever write a manuscript as collection of text files. This is non sense. For a book you may use one file per chapter, for an arti
by crocowhile 16y ago
I don't know anyone who would ever write a manuscript as collection of text files. This is non sense.
For a book you may use one file per chapter,
for an article a unique file - always in a formatting word processor. Sure, it would be nice to have a version control system working transparently withing the word processor, namely recognizing changes paragraph by paragraph.
- Estragon 16y agoI don't know anyone who would ever write a manuscript as collection of text files. Oh, I would. org-mode would make it a very pleasant experience, as long as there wasn't too much custom formatting.
- __david__ 16y agoI don't know anyone who would ever write a manuscript as collection of text files. This is non sense. Really? I thought lots of people wrote books with tex...
- ljegou 16y agoI'm more interested by the versioning function. For book-size manuscripts i work chapter by chapter + annexes.
- wccrawford 16y agoI have to agree. If I were writing, I'd want something that had formatting, but wasn't too heavy. Maybe markdown or something. Ideally, it would create nice changelogs in Git even when dealing with markup changes. I would think it wouldn't be too hard to write a little program that lets you edit visually, then stores the proper text file on disc and commits it whenever you save. Or maybe commits when you tell it to, giving you a chance to enter a commit message that means something.
- crocowhile 16y agoThat is a good idea. That way you could use flashbacke as main engine and add a frontend to make it work from openoofice or word.
- ekidd 16y agoI don't know anyone who would ever write a manuscript as collection of text files. I know of two professional writers who use Emacs. Neal Stephenson: If you are a professional writer--i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed--emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/C_R_Y_P_T_O_N_O_M_I_C_O_N.shtml http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/C_R_Y_P_T_O_N_O_M_I_C_O_N.sht... Vernor Vinge also uses Emacs, and RCS for version control: http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/vingeinterview.htm http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/vingeinterview... I'm under the impression that many fiction writers work with straight, unformatted text.