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• Customizing Multimarkdown to make Scrivener easier, part B

  One little thing about the article.xslt in MultiMarkdown that I don’t like are the boring headers. For some reason (and perhaps it’s MLA style to do this), I think having the last name next to the page number looks more professional, more seriously academic, than just having page numbers. So, how can I make Scrivener […]

• Posted on May 16.08 to Humanities Dissertation Project   

• Customizing MultiMarkdown to make Scrivener easier, part A

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  In my last post, I showed how to install the biblatex package along with the MLA style rules for the bibliography and citing in MacTeX. In a later post, I’ll discuss how to roll your own biblatex styles (hint: it’s not that difficult). But for this post, I’m making the first gestures towards the bridge […]

• Posted on May 12.08 to Humanities Dissertation Project   

• MLA bibliographies in MacTeX

  I’m still in the proposal state, in which I’m doing two things at once: writing a 18-page document that, among other things, covers in very sparse detail a bibliography of about 150 texts. So the first part of the Humanities Dissertation Project is to be able to write in Scrivener, build a bibliography in Zotero, […]

• Posted on May 11.08 to Humanities Dissertation Project   

• The Humanities Dissertation Project

  I wrote a while ago that computing blogs bore me. This is still true. But this is a project not of telling you, the reader, about new gadgets or my complaints about various forms of software. Instead, this is documentation. I am documenting the technical means by which I am constructing my dissertation in the […]

• Posted on May 11.08 to Humanities Dissertation Project