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For the hackers, I use write-good-mode in emacs to catch passive voice (which is based on some simple shell scripts[0]). I've heard good things about diction-mo
by agentultra 13y ago
For the hackers, I use write-good-mode in emacs to catch passive voice (which is based on some simple shell scripts[0]). I've heard good things about diction-mode, grammar-mode and artbollocks-mode. And of course flyspell.
I find emacs very pleasing for writing text. I also use org-mode and it's LaTeX exporter extensively for publishing.
Now if only it could integrate with text-fields in my browser...
[0] http://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voice-weasel-words-duplicates/ http://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voi...
- Flenser 13y agoI use org-mode for a to-do list and reference/archive. How can it help with publishing?
- agentultra 13y agoI've been thinking about putting together a blog post explaining how I use it for my book projects... however the short of it is: org-export. I can map out my book chapters and sections in a typical tree. I use :noexport: for sub-trees in which I keep notes and errata. Since I use LaTeX I can give my documents some more direct formatting control using #+BEGIN_LATEX blocks (which I have found useful for adding a title page, controlling flow positioning of tables, etc). And I've written a little elisp to hook in some functions which run the texi2pdf program on my exported output automatically. The nice thing is that I don't have to worry about typesetting until much later. I can just focus on the text, structure and flow. I can have my notes inline. It's really quite a nice setup.
- TeMPOraL 13y agoPlease do write this post. There's not enough examples of working setups for publishing with org mode; your experience will be helpful to many (myself included).