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Written by Mark BruceNovember 8, 2014November 8, 2014

Plain Text Writing Lesson Four: Pandoc Magic

Pandoc: The Magic Wand of Sustainable Document Conversion Now that you’ve had some fun playing with a great text editor like Gedit, and have played around with Markdown syntax, it’s time to work a little magic on your plain-text writing. Think of Pandoc like a magic wand: it’s a tool that takes your markdown text […]

Written by Mark BruceNovember 1, 2014November 2, 2014

Plain-Text Writing Lesson Three: Markdown Elegance

Introducing Markdown, the Plain-Text Writer’s Power Tool Everybody’s familiar with the usual way of formatting text in a traditional word processor, but have you stopped to think about how laborious the process normally is? If you want to make a word italic, your hands come off the keyboard and one hand moves to the mouse. […]

Written by Mark BruceOctober 29, 2014November 2, 2014

Plain-Text Writing Lesson Two: The Editor

[Note: This is part two of a multi-part series on the joys of writing with plain-text tools. If you haven’t already, you might want to take a look at the first lesson, which covers why one might want to use plain-text tools in the first place. This lesson, and all the forthcoming lessons, are geared […]

Written by Mark BruceOctober 28, 2014November 2, 2014

Writing in Plain Text: A Tutorial for the Non-Techy Writer

Inspired by a conversation with some of my advanced literature students, I offer, here, a short set of tutorials for writing productively (especially as an academic) using plain-text tools. Unlike most of the online resources on this subject, this series of tutorials is designed for the non-techy writer who doesn’t have a lot of time. […]

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