Alexander Deliyannis
9/11/2011 10:05 pm
Mark, thanks for the heads-up in EmEditor outline plug-in. This is powerful stuff.
Bill, you might want to try an intermediate solution like Textpad, one of the many text editors I am currently playing around with. Its advantage is a separate pane showing all open files; you can actually save the set as a workspace which I think is very convenient. Then for a large project, such as a book, each chapter could be a separate file.
I am impressed by the potential of plain text files, and this coming from someone who has used plain text in most of his writing. What I had never considered was the transparent freedom in combining programs that comes from working with this format. For example, I started today working on a text in Textroom, one of the minimalist full screen editors we've discussed here in the past. I then opened it in Textpad along with other related material. I included outline information via leading spaces. This in turn can be directly copied or opened by the EmEditor outline plug-in and even Brainstorm, which will recognise the levels and create the corresponding hierarchy.
In short, I can switch anytime to a more convenient environment for the task at hand, all the time without having to export/import and lose info along the way. (Brainstorm default files are not plain text, but it can write to plain text very easily).
Wow!
Bill, you might want to try an intermediate solution like Textpad, one of the many text editors I am currently playing around with. Its advantage is a separate pane showing all open files; you can actually save the set as a workspace which I think is very convenient. Then for a large project, such as a book, each chapter could be a separate file.
I am impressed by the potential of plain text files, and this coming from someone who has used plain text in most of his writing. What I had never considered was the transparent freedom in combining programs that comes from working with this format. For example, I started today working on a text in Textroom, one of the minimalist full screen editors we've discussed here in the past. I then opened it in Textpad along with other related material. I included outline information via leading spaces. This in turn can be directly copied or opened by the EmEditor outline plug-in and even Brainstorm, which will recognise the levels and create the corresponding hierarchy.
In short, I can switch anytime to a more convenient environment for the task at hand, all the time without having to export/import and lose info along the way. (Brainstorm default files are not plain text, but it can write to plain text very easily).
Wow!