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Last Week on My Mac: Taking text further

The Books app demonstrates how stultified is the approach to text on computers. It’s carefully engineered to work like a book, not to bring any new powers to text or reading.

April 28, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Take notes: Tinderbox 8 is the bee’s knees

One of the few apps that I still use frequently, and have used since version 1.0 in Mac OS X 10.0, Tinderbox has just been upgraded to version 8. Here’s why you should try it out.

April 16, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Storyspace and hypertext: index to articles (version 2)

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A listing of over 50 articles, and a detailed index of the topics covered in them, from adornments to zoom.

August 22, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

LaTeXport: revenge of the templates, and on to Tufte Book

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Wouldn’t you like your book or other document to look as wonderful as those of Edward Tufte? Here’s how to do that in Tinderbox and LaTeX.

July 15, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

LaTeXport: loose ends

Does it matter if your notes are all templates, exporting lists the right way, and why use outline views?

July 12, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

LaTeXport: writing LaTeX documents using Tinderbox

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Tinderbox proves an ideal platform for creating and maintaining LaTeX documents, with these export templates and prototypes.

July 10, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Blowhole 2 can now write any string you like into the log

Want to write to Sierra’s log from a language or app which doesn’t give easy access? Use this free tool which now writes anything you want.

July 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

Completing and using a Swift Scrapbook in Tinderbox

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The code scrapbook is finished, and has now produced its first set of articles. Five articles in around ten minutes seems pretty impressive to me.

June 29, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Swift Snippets 0: Introduction and Contents

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Covers new series of Swift Snippets articles, with links to those articles, other relevant ones here, and the whole series in a Tinderbox document.

June 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

A Tinderbox Scrapbook for Source Code: plain text and public order

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Making sure that macOS doesn’t mangle source code behind your back, and a simple solution to getting notes exported in the right order.

June 8, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

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