Why and How I Wrote My Academic Book in Plain Text

Re:Why and How I Wrote My Academic Book in Plain Text by munificent on Friday April 17, 2015 @03:50PM (#9396782)

> Well, one could write one sentence per one line, but that makes a pretty ugly txt document, when viewed raw.

Many of the tech writers I work with advocate exactly this.

In my stuff, I just hard line wrap the text. Diffs do tend to have more spurious whitespace changes because of this than I'd like, but that's still miles better than a completely opaque binary format like Word.

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Re:Why and How I Wrote My Academic Book in Plain Text by tomsthumb on Saturday April 18, 2015 @03:49AM (#9398653)

Not to advocate for word or anything, but technically it's a zip of xml and other stuff (images, etc) that get's pulled in through ... OLE(??). VC + markdown/latex excellent for collaboration or branching drafts.

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