Nathan, I used to use WordPerfect and was a dedicated WP user. I just want to know if those who have used Word vs WordPerfect vs other programs for academic use are still sticking with Word for everything or if it's worth the money to spend on WordPerfect of an alternative. Solid Hebrew support when I need it.Īll of my assignments are electronic, and they'll take Word or PDF format, so the word processor I write on doesn't matter. The ability to quickly and flexibly make formatting changes to my documents (Nisus Writer Pro was fantastic at this, Word for Windows so far has been OK but then again, I've only scratched the surface with this assignment), and 4. I've never used WordPerfect, so I'm not sure of a direct comparison between the two. My biggest concern is when I need to start working on more extensive papers, is Word still going to hold up, or will it crack under pressure? Then again, this was a really small assignment, so I haven't had a chance to "battle test" Word for Windows more. It's Hebrew support is working, performance seems fine, and I was able to quickly put together an assignment, format it, and get it to my professors without any hassle. On Windows, so far (which I've only used Word for Windows for one week for school) Word has been running excellent. So on the Mac, I definitely had to switch to Nisus Writer Pro for all of my assignments just to get through them all. Performance was laggy, Hebrew support was almost non-existent until recently, etc. On the Mac, I had nothing but trouble with Word. Fortunately we’re blessed with a plethora of choices for the sorts of tools we can use for this.Thanks everyone for the feedback. Some people will share that position, and others will not. Don has a distributed team, so he needs more of a pipeline solution. I use it regularly from a SublimeText package, which is very convenient, but if Sublime Text offered me an equivalent function that wasn’t Pandoc, I dare say I’d also make use of that when in Sublime Text because of the convenience factor.Īt the end of the day, choosing the right tool for doing this conversion will depend on how you work. However, it isn’t always the most convenient. Because it is designed as a tool it makes it easy to slot into pipeline workflows and as a general rule makes it more automatable than many other options. If you have a search in your favourite search engine, you can even find online versions. One of the big advantages is that it is available on any of the desktop-class (as well as server-class) platforms, which means it is something you can utilise almost no matter where you are working, and it’s very useful for those of us who work across multiple platforms. There several references to Pandoc across the forum ( at least a few from me I’d guess). I’m sure you, David, or you, Rose, could find many uses for it. It comes with dozens of pre-written macros you can learn from. John 3:16, although in my case they look like T-25.VI.4:3–7). I’m a neophyte in the macro language, but I managed to cobble together several macros I use to extract text from a document with numbered chapters, paragraphs, and sentences (like most Bibles) and automate a properly formatted reference (e.g. It comes with a very robust macro language built in so that you can do nearly any kind of text manipulation with it. I’m surprised that you seem unfamiliar with Nisus Writer Pro. Sometimes I want to take something from RTF and work on it, or have it close at hand to copy from in Ulysses, so I copy it in Nisus, and then Paste From RTF into Ulysses. I write Markdown in Ulysses, and when I am satisfied with what I’ve said and how it looks (using the Preview command), I Copy As RTF and paste it into Nisus Writer Pro, where I do my final formatting. The “Copy As” command will let you select Markdown text in Ulysses and copy it to the clipboard as HTML, plain text, or RTF. I was intrigued by “Paste From”, which allows one to have HTML or RTF in the clipboard and “paste from” that format directly into Markdown in Ulysses. Not long ago I “discovered” the enhanced Cut and Paste commands right there in the menu. There were several methods and tools mentioned, but one that was omitted was Ulysses, an editor that runs on MacOS and iOS. In episode 35, I believe, David and Don got into an exchange about converting from Markdown to HTML or.
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