3/ with regard to Scrivener letting one move chapters around: I use folding-mode to close most chapters in one massive document I'm working on, and that also makes it easy to move one "folded" (to one line) chapter to a different position.
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4/ Thanks! After the Berlin Wall fell and my ROTC scholarship got terminated ~ 1990 I had to take a year off from college to work. Got a gig at a startup; old school hacker introduced me to emacs. Been using it for 28 years now. .emacs file grows & growshttps://twitter.com/Isegoria/status/984415280075026433 …
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5/ Basically my .emacs now is just a big loader that finds which machine it's on, decides what packages it needs (work vs home), then lisp-compiles and loads individual files.pic.twitter.com/ouSr9RlWEg
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6/ Same here. I've only given it a quarter of a century; wish I had time to REALLY get into it. https://twitter.com/rusticusjunius/status/984419468548890626 …
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7/ Good question! https://twitter.com/rusticusjunius/status/984434347074711553 …
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8/ Answer: no, but I've got a very well documented manual process that involves openoffice, ebook-convert, validation, and a few other tools.pic.twitter.com/NKfVoeKBbK
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9/ And it should be possible to boil this down to a ruby script, which I can then invoke from a Makefile, which I can then invoke from C-c c. (Yes, I can edit Open Office docs from the command line. It's a special format zip file containing a manifest and XML >>>
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10/ ...and I have already done so as part of an automated workflow that I used to make every ebook backer of the kickstarter a custom ebook that has a hash of their email address embedded in the text using ruby / gzip / sed / etc.), so I have an existence proof.
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11/ Thank you. I love getting unrequested advice. https://twitter.com/rusticusjunius/status/984436329512517632 …
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12/ Also, this project is already underway.pic.twitter.com/InjCaSu30P
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13/ Is that some emacs variant? If no: then no. https://twitter.com/rusticusjunius/status/984436581569200128 …
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ah! I've used ebook-convert, and am happy with it. Sounds like a tool in the same space?
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It's been decades but unfollow me now, I'm vi. This reminds me of the time I found out a math professor was dating one of the fellow students, a math major. I told the girl next to me. She was aghast and said, "But he's Pure and she's Applied!"
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