Versatile and intuitive

Byword has become my editor of choice for writing blog posts. It makes use of the flexible and easy-to-learn markdown conventions for editing. A markdown text can easily be previewed, and one one is satisfied with the appearance, the text can then be published to Blogger, Wordpress or one of the other commonly used blog sites. Alternatively, the text can be converted to HTML, RTF, PDF, Word DOC or even LaTeX encoding. This means one can focus most of one’s attention on content rather than formatting as one is writing. While my long-standing habit has been to use a dedicated LaTeX editor when using that markup language, I am considering switching to using Byword at least for composing passages that can then be copied into a large LaTeX document for final formatting.

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