whatever we write, it’s still all about us.
Back when I started writing slash fiction and erotic novelettas — no I will not give away my nom de plum. – I found myself in quite a quandry. I couldn’t find any decent writers applications for the mac, or windows for that matter.
What I ended up doing was to use Emacs — a despickable cli programmers editor — and whenever my editor wanted a copy i’d just open it in textedit and choose ‘print as pdf’ from the menu. Although it worked it was quite tedious, as you can imagine.
I eventually tried using a couple of applescripts together with barebonesoft’s BBedit, which to me felt awkward and very os9-ish. I dropped it for emacs.
Now I did however find this recently, it’s a plugin bundle for textmate made by Oliver Taylor, works quite charmingly and i’ve begun to insert my drafts into the subversion server already. Granted I could be doing all of the versioning and comparing with any editor, but Textmate is built for this in mind, I can diff document drafts and compare; without the need for umptyten tools.
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