The billionaire’s typewriter
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The billionaire’s typewriter
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Re: The billionaire’s typewriter
#2"If they sometimes act as if they discovered typography like it was the Higgs boson, we can forgive their excess of enthusiasm."
Re: The billionaire’s typewriter
#3"If they sometimes act as if they discovered typography like it was the Higgs boson, we can forgive their excess of enthusiasm."
You left out the diamond - it made reading this article very strange, since I haven't trained myself not to vocalize it.
"If they ♢ sometimes act as if they discovered typography like it was the Higgs boson, we can forgive their excess of enthusiasm."
Re: The billionaire’s typewriter
#4"If they sometimes act as if they discovered typography like it was the Higgs boson, we can forgive their excess of enthusiasm."
You left out the diamond - it made reading this article very strange, since I haven't trained myself not to vocalize it. "If they ♢ sometimes act as if they discovered typography like it was the Higgs boson, we can forgive their excess of enthusiasm."
I just figured my browser wasn't configured properly...weird.
Re: The billionaire’s typewriter
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
You left out the diamond - it made reading this article very strange, since I haven't trained myself not to vocalize it. "If they ♢ sometimes act as if they discovered typography like it was the Higgs boson, we can forgive their excess of enthusiasm."
I just figured my browser wasn't configured properly...weird.
The diamond indicates a link. It's a great convention once you understand it, but it's not at all obvious.
Re: The billionaire’s typewriter
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just figured my browser wasn't configured properly...weird.
The diamond indicates a link. It's a great convention once you understand it, but it's not at all obvious.
How is it a great convention? I'm not trying to be contentious, however I am not sure how that is superior to underlining a link, which is a fairly ubiquitous convention. It seems overly cumbersome. It made me think though that perhaps a superscript would serve the same purpose and be less intrusive.
Re: The billionaire’s typewriter
#7My favorite writing tool of all time is, without a question in my mind, LyX.
It manages to find the perfect balance of minimal barriers to productivity, absolute power when I need it, and seriously professional grade results. It's like writing with iAWriter or similar tools, except I still have some basic structural options in the interface, and the end result generated is downright professional grade.
I think the "WYSIWYM" approach that LyX takes on, combined with the power of LaTeX underneath and the powerful customization possibilities that brings, kinda makes it a silver bullet for a writer in my book.
Re: The billionaire’s typewriter
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
The diamond indicates a link. It's a great convention once you understand it, but it's not at all obvious.
How is it a great convention? I'm not trying to be contentious, however I am not sure how that is superior to underlining a link, which is a fairly ubiquitous convention. It seems overly cumbersome. It made me think though that perhaps a superscript would serve the same purpose and be less intrusive.
I agree. In particular, I wonder what, say, Metafilter would look like if every link were preceded by a diamond.
Re: The billionaire’s typewriter
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just figured my browser wasn't configured properly...weird.
The diamond indicates a link. It's a great convention once you understand it, but it's not at all obvious.
I agree with mryingster; what happened to underlines, which are a well understood convention as well as directly showing which words serve as the link?
Re: The billionaire’s typewriter
#10My favorite writing tool of all time is, without a question in my mind, LyX. It manages to find the perfect balance of minimal barriers to productivity, absolute power when I need it, and seriously professional grade results. It's like writing with iAWriter or similar tools, except I still have some basic structural options in the interface, and the end result generated is downright professional grade. I think the "W…
Have you written any long documents or a book with LyX? Any recommendations on resources for learning LyX or LaTeX? There are a lot of Markdown-based publishing tools being promoted these days.