vampApr 11, 2017

So I've been going back through my writing folder and exporting every scrivener project from the last 8 years because the Linux version is no longer in development and it don't work post Ubuntu 16.04.

PROPRIETARY FORMATS ARE BAD, M'KAY?

There's so many projects *falls over*

Show threadDaniel Holliday ⌨️Apr 11, 2017
@vamp switched to working exclusively in plain text last year - best decision I ever made
Show threadvampApr 11, 2017
@dathowitzer Exclusively plain text from here on out, though. It's certainly a lot safer.
Show threadDaniel Holliday ⌨️Apr 11, 2017
@vamp and far more capable. With a glut of editors, I find myself across a few to get best of all worlds (Vim being best of the best)
Show threadvampApr 11, 2017
@dathowitzer OMG, I'm a text editor junkie. Always switching to the next shiny thing. Currently a toss-up between Ghostwriter and Typora (I like markdown editors).
Show threadFerdi F. Zebua 🌏Apr 11, 2017
@vamp @dathowitzer Recommendations for markdown-focused big-project text editor? Cross-platform, preferably?
Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​

@FerdiZ @dathowitzer @vamp "Recommendations for markdown-focused big-project text editor? Cross-platform, preferably?"
Vim.
Or Emacs.
Seriously.

It's what they're all about. 40 years of continued refinement /of editing fucking text/.

The only thing I've ever seen that comes remotely close was the EVE editor. But that was tied to VMS, so, I haven't touched that in ... <glances at calendar> ... 20 years.

Apr 11, 2017 at 3:19pmWeb
Show threadFerdi F. Zebua 🌏Apr 11, 2017
@dredmorbius @vamp @dathowitzer Perhaps an amateurish naive question but: does Emacs / Vim support complex writing project planning & outlining etc.? And for example moving around whole chapters, or specific paragraphs within one chapter onto another chapter? I suppose they must have already, after +40 years...
Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​Apr 11, 2017

@FerdiZ @dathowitzer @vamp Yes.

It's been the academic tool of choice for writing books and articles within maths, physics, and computer science for a few decades.

Generally, what you'll do with a major project and LaTeX is to write a file per chapter. Numbering is automatic. Those are included into the main text. Reorder chapters just by changing the placement of the includes.

Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​Apr 11, 2017

@FerdiZ @dathowitzer @vamp See: https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Modular_Documents

StackExchange and Reddit both have excellent LaTeX support groups.