Congratulations on 1.0 of the library. I've seen your progress updates on KeenWrite in the weekly recurring topics, and it's great to see people sticking through and hitting milestones on long...
Congratulations on 1.0 of the library. I've seen your progress updates on KeenWrite in the weekly recurring topics, and it's great to see people sticking through and hitting milestones on long term projects.
KeenWrite, I take it, is kind of a replacement for the de facto way of writing academic papers, replacing things like LaTeX? I remember using LaTeX back in the day and it was super clunky, similar to the drudgery of hand-writing HTML or XML. If that could be mostly replaced with Markdown and a WYSIWYG editor, that would be pretty revolutionary for those poor PhD and Masters students.
I'm unfamiliar with the current state of the art. Are there similar projects out there, to compare with? Or is this a novel approach as far as you're aware?
Also I took a peek at KeenType's custom "NTS" license, inherited from an older upstream project. Very interesting, it sounds like they basically discourage editing the core files, and instead suggest to build things as extensions. Basically they want derivative projects to copy and distribute the upstream project source files wholesale, and then bundle diffs alongside it.
Appreciate you laying out the background. Very cool that you're writing a novel using the tool. Be sure to post a link in ~creative, and maybe ~books when it's more or less finished. I'd be...
Appreciate you laying out the background. Very cool that you're writing a novel using the tool. Be sure to post a link in ~creative, and maybe ~books when it's more or less finished. I'd be interested in trying at least a few chapters, although I'm not a sci-fi buff and my feedback will be limited.
I'm not at all qualified to talk about the typesetting, but if the new tool produces output identical to the ConTeXt output, then that's impressively professional quality to my layman's eye.
Thanks for sharing. I'll continue to check out updates posted to Tildes.
Congratulations on 1.0 of the library. I've seen your progress updates on KeenWrite in the weekly recurring topics, and it's great to see people sticking through and hitting milestones on long term projects.
KeenWrite, I take it, is kind of a replacement for the de facto way of writing academic papers, replacing things like LaTeX? I remember using LaTeX back in the day and it was super clunky, similar to the drudgery of hand-writing HTML or XML. If that could be mostly replaced with Markdown and a WYSIWYG editor, that would be pretty revolutionary for those poor PhD and Masters students.
I'm unfamiliar with the current state of the art. Are there similar projects out there, to compare with? Or is this a novel approach as far as you're aware?
Also I took a peek at KeenType's custom "NTS" license, inherited from an older upstream project. Very interesting, it sounds like they basically discourage editing the core files, and instead suggest to build things as extensions. Basically they want derivative projects to copy and distribute the upstream project source files wholesale, and then bundle diffs alongside it.
Appreciate you laying out the background. Very cool that you're writing a novel using the tool. Be sure to post a link in ~creative, and maybe ~books when it's more or less finished. I'd be interested in trying at least a few chapters, although I'm not a sci-fi buff and my feedback will be limited.
I'm not at all qualified to talk about the typesetting, but if the new tool produces output identical to the ConTeXt output, then that's impressively professional quality to my layman's eye.
Thanks for sharing. I'll continue to check out updates posted to Tildes.