The Writer's Technology Companion

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I recently ran into a strange problem. I was asked to present an academic paper at a conference, and while writing fell automatically into the habit of referencing all my quotes and other citations with traditional parenthetical citations. When I went to produce the shorter copy that I would read from at the […]

In the last installment, we examined how to compose and check your writing using the Linux tools txt2tags and aspell. Let’s assume that you’ve used these tools now — used them quite a lot. You now have several directories and sub-directories filled with dozens of text files. How to organize all of this text?
Don’t […]