Writing

Bluefish

Submitted by Josh Honn on

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web designers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.

Webpage: 

http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/

Classical Text Editor

Submitted by Josh Honn on

The Classical Text Editor was designed to enable scholars working on a critical edition or on a text with commentary or translation to prepare a camera-ready copy or electronic publication without bothering much about making up and page proofs. Its features, formed in continuous discussion with editors using the program, meet the practical needs of the scholar concerning text constitution, entries to different apparatus and updating them when the text has been changed, as well as creating and redefining sigla.

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http://cte.oeaw.ac.at//

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Collation Works

Submitted by Joel Kalvesmaki on

CollateX-based text collation client. CollateX, run on an server independent from the URL above, is a powerful, fully automatic, baseless text collation engine for multiple witnesses. A second collation technique, ncritic, provides a slightly different baseless text collation. Each engine complements each other nicely. The user can use different files, even URLs, then output the result in GraphML, TEI, JSON, HTML, or SVG. Fuzzy matching is an option.

Webpage: 

http://interedition-tools.appspot.com/

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Concordance

Submitted by Jake Peterson on

A software tool for performing concordance – the analysis of a set of words within its immediate context - on a body of text. The tool performs full concordance, reading and analysing each and every word in a text. It was initially written for the analysis of English texts, but has since been extended to cater for other Western languages. Limited support is also provided for text in East Asian scripts, such as Chinese and Korean.

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Webpage: 

http://www.concordancesoftware.co.uk/

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Editors' Notes

Submitted by Josh Honn on

Editors' Notes is an open-source, web-based tool for recording, organizing, preserving, and opening access to research notes, built with the needs of documentary editing projects, archives, and library special collections in mind.

Webpage: 

http://editorsnotes.org/

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Google Docs

Submitted by Paige Paulsen on

Google Docs is an online environment for editing and sharing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, drawings, and tables. Google Docs documents can be public or private, or shared with anyone with a Google account.

Webpage: 

http://docs.google.com

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NoodleTools

Submitted by Emma Millon on

MLA, APA, Chicago / Turabian and most-common Bluebook forms as an integrated citing and note-taking platform for individual or group projects. Prompts for analysis of source types and is unique in offering teaching support and personal help on any citation. Instructor / librarian view allows teacher to comment on work-in-progress providing just-in-time feedback in-context. Archives copies of web pages and pdfs which can be annotated. Dashboard provides long-term access to a portfolio of work.

Webpage: 

http://www.noodletools.com/

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Participad

Submitted by Josh Honn on

Participad is a WordPress plugin that allows multiple people to edit the same WP content at the same time. Powered by Etherpad Lite, Participad gives you: notepads, for collaborative notetaking; ynchronous authoring of any content in the WordPress Dashboard; front-end editing.

Webpage: 

http://participad.org/

PressBooks

Submitted by Josh Honn on

PressBooks lets you and your team easily author and output books in multiple formats including: epub, Kindle, print-on-demand-ready PDF, HTML, and inDesign-ready XML.

Webpage: 

http://pressbooks.com/

Scrivener

Submitted by Quinn Dombrowski on

Scrivener is software for writing that includes virtual index cards, outlining, version control, import/export options, and scriptwriting features.

Webpage: 

http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php

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