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Text file formats

What’s the difference between plain text, marked-up plain text, and rich text? How can I tell them apart, and how do they work?

December 20, 2022 Macs, Technology

Forming unusual characters using Unicode and typography

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How can you create a new accented or other character which doesn’t appear in Unicode? It depends on whether you want it in text, or PDF.

August 2, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 22 The fractious PDF

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Searching this PDF using Preview is hopeless. Is it a bug in Preview or macOS? How can you get proper access to its contents?

June 11, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

LaTeX and MathML equations come to iWork, as well as iBooks Author

Welcome and useful additions, particularly to Pages, where these additions fit in well with styles. But some surprising shortcomings too.

June 16, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Back to the future

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Publishing has gone full circle, from markup to WYSIWYG page layout, and back to markup. Meanwhile many of its remaining problems have been solved – in LaTeX.

July 16, 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

Compositor’s attempt on the Holy Grail of document processing

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Described as a WYSIWYG LaTeX for Mac, this app attempts to provide integrated editing of both marked-up text and rendered pages.

July 7, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

The joy of TeX

Few computer products thrive for over 30 years: the Mac (31 years young), Unix in its many guises (46), and TeX (37) each spring to mind.

April 5, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology
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