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Newbie working with plain text: best practices for formatting etc?
Matthew Chagnon | Jan 22 2008
Hey all, I've searched far and wide online and am really surprised not to find very much info on this (perhaps I'm using the wrong search terms!). After reading Bit Literacy, I decided that I wanted to starting using plain text files more at work, especially for notes. Unfortunately, years of reading 43F has enhanced my fiddly nature, and I'm more focused on trying to format my notes "correctly," or at least to have some sort of standard to stick to. Does anyone have any best practices (or web resources) for working with text on a page? Currently, I find text files difficult to read (and line breaks confusing). Any thoughts? 26 Comments
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 Several OptionsSubmitted by Andrew F on January 22, 2008 - 9:59am.
I definitely second the LaTeX suggestion. There's very little you can't do in LaTeX: lists, tables, cross references, mathematics, weird symbols, automatic tables of contents, etc. However, it can be a bit arcane. If that's more than you need, consider markdown. Its actually on way to mark up comments on this page. Lastly, there's a neat utility called TaskPaper that allows you to work with text files as todo lists in a very elegant way. If you act before 1/23 at around 9PM, you can get it, along with a whole slew of Mac Apps in the MacHeist. » POSTED IN:
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