DD Bw wrote:

if you are writing your dissertation, Sublime Text 2 does a better job
than Scrivener. Some people have developed great tools for writing latex
in Sublime Text. Sente works quite good with the Latex as it exports
decent quality Bib file. Tinderbox, arcane app, is a pain for
composition since it can integrate neither to the latex not to the MS
word writing environment easily. Tinderbox is really not a practical
application to get things done. It is just great for the curious
tinkering; spending your time playing with its maps, agents and
adornments. as its file organization system heavily relies on propriety
metadata (attributes), when you migrate to another software, you will
understand that all the time you spend organizing the notes in TB is a
time you spent on vain. I wouldn't recommend TB for dissertation. You
would better go for a more flexible application that can import
different formats as image, rtf files, pdfs, export to different
formats. TB can do none of them. Writing templates to make exports is a
heck of a pain; you will spend your time tinkering with the agents than
getting your dissertation done.

- you can try connected Text using CrossOver in Mac bzw. it works quite
well.

Thanks for your suggestion. The problem with Sublime is that it does not support right to left (RTL) languages like Hebrew, so I can't use it for my research. Tinderbox has its place, but I agree that its exporting formats are poor. I will keep an eye on the upcoming 6 version. CrossOver for CT is an option, will look into it.