![]() I also worried about the archival aspect: would the documents I cared about be readable ten or twenty years from now, given the inexorable change of operating systems and proprietary programs (.doc. And they cost dearly at every major re-issue, forcing the user to become a kind of renter on contract for an indefinite period of time. ![]() I found the commercial programs very constraining: they lined text up in ways one could do little about, hyphenated things without permission, and made you concerned above all about how things looked. This inability to think increased when windows appeared on various machines, for instance the Mac and then on so-called Windows desktop machines. I also remember I couldn’t think at the screen. Thirty years later, I still remember those commands, the vi ones in particular, and the strings of code I typed to obtain Greek and Hebrew. I’m talking amber screens, a prompt and text only, with a non-visual editor (in spite of its acronym), vi, and mysterious Unix commands that one used to handle files and send them to the printer. I learned to type when I began to use computers, in my thirties. Now I do much of the writing directly on computer and screen. The scratching of the pen and the shaping of the ink on the paper helped in thinking, or so I thought. I used to write in copybooks, on loose sheets, the back of envelopes, and wrapping paper. I’m posting them for anyone interested in writing, publishing, lecturing. Texshop rich text software#These are notes on software tools I use in writing and presentations. As for my Zotero account on the website, I removed it indirectly by deleting the email account associated with it. ![]() Then I removed the Zotero folder left on my machine (Mac: /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/random string/zotero) and whatever preference zotero files I had in /Library/Preferences. So, I launched the Zotero extension (“add-on”) in Firefox, highlighted all the references in the library with shift-click, dragged them to the trash (or used Delete, I’m not sure anymore), then clicked on Trash and repeated the operation. I couldn’t find a “data delete” button on the Zotero web page. Texshop rich text pdf#The reason is that I much prefer Bibdesk because it is flexible, fast, convenient, and works well with Textmate, XeLaTeX, and/or TeXShop for processing and pdf production. I had over 5,000 items on Zotero which I wanted to delete. In case anyone wants to delete the bibliographic data stored on Zotero (the Zotero info doesn’t help at all, as far as I could tell), here is what I did. ![]()
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