The Picture of Dorian Gray (that points to "The Picture of Dorian ")ĭoes that ring a bell for anybody here? Is there some similar functionality out there?īonus for support for an easy to use file creation process like "add a new book", "add new notes", "add new short story" in combination with, e.g., a template mechanism. The file extension should be hidden, so that I may use it with Orgdown files that have long, descriptive file names (most probably within the same directory). I'm thinking of a screen that pops up when booting Emacs that only shows the files I was working on recently in large font (maybe as buttons to click on). However, as far as I've read (I haven't set up them except nano), they do not offer a very reduced and visually appealing recentf-open-file alternative. There are nice looking distraction-free setups with or or or If you know of any, you might communicate what you know to author Kirschenbaum (see the last sentence of the first paragraph).I'm planning to set up an Emacs configuration for somebody writing books and stories who is not familiar with technology that much. Recommend borrowing Track Changes from yourġ Jennifer Schuessler, “The Muses of Insert, Delete and Execute”,, /times-schuesslerĢ Somewhat irrelevant aside: If you have not read Stephenson’s In the Beginning was the Command Line, I highly recommend it still, even though it is now quite dated: ģ I am wondering about other fiction authors who may have used TeX et al. Intersection of the literary and the digital worlds. Take a look at the author’s website 4 to see otherĮssays and videos as he continues his work at the To get a better feel for Track Changes, you can Track Changes is a pretty useful reference bookĪs well as being fun reading. Mentioned in the book or to look up history on anĮarly word processing system such as WordStar. Names, which lets one see if one’s favorite author is The book also has a nice index of systems and author Len Deighton’s adoption of early word processing 2, 3 Perhaps the longest of the hundreds ofĪuthors mentioned in the book is the story of author QuarkXPress, Stephenson wrote a conversion program ![]() The publisher wanted to typeset the book in the Transcribing his Baroque Cycle, originally drafted longhand, into TeX using Emacs then, when where author Neal Stephenson is described as Knuth and TeX are mentioned once in the book, on Working on moving along an academic thesis, the book Pages of notes and the chapter titles appear to be Lewis) rather, it’s a collection of stories about (like most books by, e.g., Tracy Kidder and Michael On a few characters used to drive a narrative ahead The book’s style falls somewhere between creative Remember and a plethora of previously unknown The book many authors, books, and systems to Of fiction (particularly genre fiction), will find in Through the era of the development of interactiveĮditors and word processors or (b) who is a reader Sociological slant to the book, anyone who (a) has lived (e.g., Scrivener and WriteRoom) in spite of the Who cling to “boutique” word processing systems ![]() Of equipment before word processing was reallyĪvailable as a product and continuing through writers Processors, from the earliest word processing kludges Studies the steps and impact on their writing ofĪuthors moving from pens or typewriters to word The University of Maryland who “is a devoted scholar ofĪll things digital and literary”. ![]() The author is a professor in the English Department of I’d be grateful to hear from any readers who have That “this is still very much an active project, and Of this helped the author develop his book and,Īlthough the book is now published, the author says With tips, anecdotes, contacts, and suggestions”. Public Library, and a New York Times reporter wroteĪbout his interest in the history of word processing. In the Acknowledgments section of Matthew Kirschenbaum’s Track Changes, he notes that in DecemberĢ011 he gave a lecture on his research at the New York Of Harvard University Press, 2016, xvi+344 pp. Kirschenbaum, Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing.
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