When I have to use a normal word processor, it is usually LibreOffice.
I try Office 365 from time to time, but it just cannot compare to the trouble-free collaboration I experience in Google Docs.
I have been using it for several years now, and it really shines when it comes to collaborative writing and editing. When I am writing non-academic texts with others, such as administrative documents, reports, and so on, I typically use Google Docs. So most of the time, I just export a BibTeX file of my complete library from Zotero, and import that. There is a connection from Zotero to Overleaf, but I have found this to be somewhat shaky. It is not perfect, but I like that it is cross-platform (and by that I mean Windows, OSX, and Linux), it has a web interface, and it synchronizes between systems. This makes it much easier for people to get started with LaTeX than it used to be only a few years ago.
#DOES TEXTUTIL CONVERT TEXT FILE TO PDF FILES INSTALL#
Being a web app, you don’t have to install LaTeX locally on your own computer. This editor makes it possible for multiple users to work on the same document, and it also handles the compiling into PDFs very nicely. Since most of my academic writing these days is collaborative, I almost only work in the web-based LaTeX editor Overleaf. This is also a text-based format, but with a slightly more complex (and also more powerful) syntax than markdown. I usually start my academic writing with notes in markdown, but as soon as I start to get into the proper writing mode, I convert into LaTeX. I also like to be able to do multiline editing. I use quite a lot of advanced query-replace functions, for example, and then regular expressions are useful. Yes, it is a nerdy way of writing things, but working in a text editor (as opposed to a word processor) is just so much quicker for many things. I often have to send off files as either PDFs or DOCX files, and this can easily be done with a terminal command such as: pandoc file.txt -o file.pdf The nice thing about markdown formatted text files, is that they can easily be converted to other formats using Pandoc. Most of the time I write using markdown, which is just a structured way to write text files. This is mainly because it is cross-platform, has some plugins that are useful, and has excellent integration with Github. On my main laptop (running Ubuntu Studio), I primarily use Atom as my main text editor. I use different text editors dependent on what computer/platform I am working on, and that is also one of the beauties of text files. Most of my writing, whether it is e-mail drafts, meeting notes, or academic papers, is done in the form of plain text files. I actually really enjoy reading about how other people work, so writing about it here may perhaps also be interesting to others. This is not something I have written about here on the blog before, although I do have very strong opinions on my own tools. Earlier today I was asked about what tools I use when writing.
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