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Thanks, David, but you should send it to the list, too, or Simon will not be able to answer .-) Stephan David Megginson wrote: > Stephan Wiesner wrote: > >> I wrote my diploma thesis in DocBook, using Open Source Editor JEdit. >> I used the editor to write my Java code too. And my documentation of >> course. In 6 month it did not crash once and I did not have to recover >> a single backup of my thesis. Put it into CVS, nevertheless, just to >> be sure. You can be sure that I knew a lot of shortcuts for this >> editor at the end, making me really productive in it (still trying to >> reach that level in Eclipse and failing miserably). > > > That brings back memories. Back in the late 1980's and early 1990's, I > wrote my doctoral dissertation using Emacs, initially in LaTeX, but > finally in TEI SGML (converted to LaTeX via make and a custom Perl > script). The initial learning and setup time repaid itself over and > over again. After I got my first teaching job in 1992, I tried > repeatedly over the next few years to write research papers (or even > just class handouts) in Word but failed miserably each time, what with > the crashes, style madness, awkward GUI interface (click click click > click click), and so on. > > Over a decade later, Emacs remains my editor and IDE of choice, though > just yesterday I switched to reading mail and news in Mozilla (we'll see > if that lasts; in the past, I've always gone back to Emacs after a few > days). > >> I keep promising myself that if I ever become a famous author I will >> force my publisher to allow me to write in XML . . . > > > While you're waiting to become famous, try finding an XML-friendly > publisher. My own publisher, Prentice-Hall, is happy to accept > manuscripts in XML (at least for the technical division), and I'm pretty > sure that O'Reilly is as well (right, Simon?). > > > All the best, > > > David > > >
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