MPU 005: Word Processing and Writing
Episode five takes on word processing and writing on your Mac. It is no longer all about Microsoft Word. Apple’s own Pages is becoming a contender and there are several other tools that will help you write better.
Links of Interest:
Microsoft Office
OpenOffice
NeoOffice
Apple Pages
Scrivener
WriteRoom
MacSpeech Dictate
TextExpander
OmniGraphSketcher
The Scourge of Arial
Original Macintosh System Fonts
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June 29th, 2009 at 7:38 am
Just listened to the show and again a nice and informative podcast. Just an additional note with reference formula in Pages or any iWork document. I use Grapher (from the utilities pane) to insert formulas. Just create the formula and copy as PDF and paste into you document. It works for the limited information i have to use, but works well
Keep up the good work
Mark
July 4th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Hi Katie and Dave!
Very well done (and certainly not too long), congratulations!
The very good thing is that it’s a podcast, not a screencast, I can therefore listen to it everywhere I want while doing manual work.
Only a SLIGHT drawback: I wish you had devoted a little less time to Microsoft Word to leave some room for the inescapable Mellel…
Please, keep going, I’m looking forward to the next show
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July 7th, 2009 at 3:02 am
Hi Dave and Katie,
Thank you for the podcast, very good information.
I would like to mention that many, many technical people use Latex for work processing (or publishing… not sure of the right term). I use it on the mac with TextMate and Aquaemacs and it works fantastic.
There are many reasons. One of them is that I do not want to have binary files for my documents, they do not match very well with version control systems.
Regards
August 6th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Hi — enjoyed the podcast very much. One criterion I have for selecting a wordprocessor is multilingual capability. I create and edit bilingual documents in Hebrew, so I need right-to-left script support.
Believe it or not, Pages doesn’t do this right, and neither does Word 2008!
Neo Office and OpenOffice do; so does TextEdit; but for these kinds of documents, I just picked up a copy of Mellel, which has been around for a long time. One very nice feature: if you are writing a bilingual document, it lets you pick a font for each language — when you switch scripts, it automatically switches fonts as well. Only Mac WP I’ve found that does that.
More info on Mellel is at:
http://www.redlers.com/
August 12th, 2009 at 7:18 am
Hallo Katie and Dave!
Just missing some words about VoodoPad.
Like it very much and use the functions:
“Export to iPhone” and “Web export” – very offen.
see http://flyingmeat.com/voodoopad/