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Posted by Derek Cornish
Jan 2, 2007 at 02:37 AM
Graham -
> And I shall stop with that example for I can go on for pages describing my Word experiences, and it just gets me annoyed.
A pretty fair reflection of my feelings. As part of my recent plain-text obsession I did look at Lyx, but I have the usual problem of having to collaborate with others, or follow journal guidelines - even when I am doing reviews for them. The decision I finally came to was just to put off using Word until the last possible moment. Now that I am drafting in a plain-text editor the way I used to a few years ago I can feel the BP falling rapidly.
Derek
Posted by Graham Smith
Jan 2, 2007 at 07:39 AM
Derek
>> And I shall stop with that example for I can go on for pages describing my
>Word experiences, and it just gets me annoyed.
>
>A pretty fair reflection of my feelings.
And many others I know
>As part of my recent plain-text obsession I did look at Lyx, but I have the
>usual problem of having to collaborate with others, or follow journal guidelines -
>even when I am doing reviews for them.
Well, I have a similar problem, and Word will still be my most used tool. However, I can still see good use for Lyx when I am working on my own, especially when I need to provide a well laid out hard copy report. The final layout is often where a lot of time is wasted in Word.
So far I am enjoying Lyz, (1.4 seems to have added a lot of useful features over 1.3) and it seems to fill that middle ground between Word and DTP that I wanted for my printed reports as well giving a useful writing environment.
>Now that I am drafting in a plain-text editor the way I used to a few years ago I can feel the BP falling rapidly.
What are you using for the drafting?
Graham
Posted by Derek Cornish
Jan 3, 2007 at 12:43 AM
Graham -
> What are you using for the drafting?
EditPad Lite. I have a small collection of other ones to try out, but haven’t got round to sampling them yet.
Derek
Posted by Graham Smith
Jan 3, 2007 at 07:13 AM
Derek
>> What are you using for the drafting?
>EditPad Lite.
That was the one that looked the most promising during my search, but I have actually been using (or trying to use) Emacs the last couple of days. I can use Emacs or indeed Winedt with R and I would like to choose something that has the appropriate add-in, but as a writing tool EditPad looks very good.
Thanks,
Graham
Posted by Derek Cornish
Jan 4, 2007 at 04:29 AM
Graham -
> ...as a writing tool EditPad looks very good.
Yes, I had considered EditPad Plus, but I really don’t need the extra features - just something plain and simple that I can link to Zoot. I’m even considering going back to converting pdf files to text. It’s something we both used to do I think. For many purposes short of final presentation the pdf format is just a nuisance. I’m wavering on that one, though, as I remember that it took a lot of self-discipline in the midst of trawling for information on the internet to set aside time to convert and often rename pdf files. And leaving it until later meant that it often didn’t get done.
Another problem of converting to text, and one that I don’t see often mentioned, is that it can sometimes increase the risk of unconscious or inadvertent plagiarism. This also applies to html2text conversion. One chunk of plain text looks much like another once shorn of its fancy formatting, and sometimes not so different from one’s own notes.
Derek