Writing Software

[HigherEd7]

Is anyone using any of the writing programs such as Perrla to help format and organize their writing?

[adel9216]

I have never heard about Perrla, but a few people have told me about Scrivener.

[polly_mer]

I spent the morning with my LaTeX files.  I love TeXShop and use it for everything under my control.

[youllneverwalkalone]

I spent the morning with my LaTeX files.  I love TeXShop and use it for everything under my control.

+1 to LaTeX

I personally use TeXstudio.

[mamselle]

Just on the basis of their horrible YouTube ads, I'd never encourage anyone to use "Grammerly" (which is an ungrammatical name, if you ask me!)

Best is to find a good editor, work with them on a regular basis, and be willing to learn from their suggestions.

Then when you have a big project that really needs close oversight you'll have established a connection with someone you trust.

I've yet to see an editorial program that didn't produce awful gaffes, needing correction by a human who actually knows their grammar, spelling, etc.

(Why, yes, I do free-lance work as an academic editor...what made you think that??)

;--}

M.

[pgher]

Count me among the LaTeX crowd. I use Overleaf. It's online, so it doesn't work on a plane, but it's easy to use collaboratively and gets around the installation and configuration issues. (I use TeXnicCenter offline.)

[polly_mer]

Count me among the LaTeX crowd. I use Overleaf. It's online, so it doesn't work on a plane, but it's easy to use collaboratively and gets around the installation and configuration issues. (I use TeXnicCenter offline.)

I created my first internal-to-my-employer account on Overleaf a couple days ago because a colleague insisted that's how we'll collaborate on finishing our papers for one project while we're all officially on work-from-home.  This project had been emailing Word documents around so a shared LaTeX document is a huge improvement.

So far, the Overleaf transition been a lot smoother than trying to teach another set of colleagues how to use Git, GitLab-equivalent, and LaTeX all at one go; we're just teaching one person LaTeX at the moment.  I am grateful, though, that I brought a big TV into my home office instead of just working on the 13-inch laptop.  I like the Overleaf interface with several windows-that-would-float-in-TeXShop consolidated into one essentially static arrangement.  However, that's not nearly as nice an arrangement on just the laptop monitor.

[HigherEd7]

Thanks for the responses as always