On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 08:52 +1000, Murray McAllister wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I am writing on behalf of my fellow content authors at Red Hat Asia
Pacific. We are curious to know what tools everyone is using for
writing, including editors, research tools, diagram tools, graphic
tools, and so on. This is sort of a survey, and we are always keen to
try out new tools/ways of doing things if they will improve on what we
currently use.
= Writing =
* WordPress, Wiki -- browser based editing + the Firefox 'It's All
Text'[1] extension (loads HTML TEXTAREA into my $EDITOR, saves countless
hours of badness and lost productivity.)
* Emacs -- all DocBook XML work done here, it's still the best. I also
do most of my note taking and initial drafts here. I also compile
documents from within Emacs (M ! to do a shell command, then 'make
html-en_US' etc.)
*
OO.org -- for business documents when I need to collaborate with
others who are not savvy with text and diff tools. :)
= Graphics/Diagrams =
In order of usage for writing tasks:
1. Inkscape -- has replaced most of my usage from before
2. GIMP -- for raster image tasks
3. Xfig -- I prefer this over Dia, it seems better featured and I like
the way it works
4. Dia -- when all else fails or I need a very quick diagram that
includes network equipment images
- Karsten
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125
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