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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

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

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

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

A Tinderbox Scrapbook for Source Code: exporting in WordPress markdown

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How to create a scrapbook for Swift code snippets, which can be copied into Xcode, and exported for Wordpress publication.

June 6, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Improving HTML from Tinderbox to Make a Better Help Book

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Tuning HTML export to produce exactly the right files, and tweaking the appearance. But can it also address a search bug?

March 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Marking Time

Why is XML still so hard to write, and so poorly supported by accessible tools?

January 16, 2016 Macs, Technology

XML – Lingua Franca or Lost Cause?

XML should have been the solution to so many problems: just structure documents semantically and you can rejigger them any way that you want. But there is more to it than that…

April 26, 2015 Macs, Technology
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