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A fairly large amount of time of creating Fidus Writer has been communicating with other editors and web standardization groups. With Fidus Writer we are oftentimes reaching the limit of what is currently possible to do on the web. That’s why we feel it’s important to participate as much as we can in helping the… read more |
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The 1.1 beta version is now letting users choose from eight instead of five different citation styles. Site administrators can add even more styles through the administration interface. When we first started Fidus Writer, adding citations within the text was one of our major advantages in comparison to other text editors. While we initially had… read more |
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Fidus Writer has been without good PDF output support for several weeks after a rather dramatic showdown among the big players in the the world of browsers. Luckily we were able to fix this issue with a solution that is also compatible with Firefox. Complete Firefox support is now closer than ever! |
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We received an email after having shown Fidus Writer off at the Frankfurt Bookfair last fall to several of the university open access publishers. They wanted us to show the advantages of Fidus at their annual gathering in the East German town of Merseburg, just a few hours by train outside of Berlin. Three of… read more |
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The Open Journal Systems (OJS) is used by thousands worldwide to manage their academic journals through the web. For the past two months Takuto Kojima from the Fidus Writer team and Alec Smecher from the OJS have worked on integrating the two. In the interview below they tell us what this means, how far they… read more |
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It has taken us a while, but finally it is here! The 1.1 beta version! Check it out at http://test.fiduswriter.org. Some of the major features you will find are experimental: realtime collaboration (several users writing in the same document, or one user accessing the same document from two different browsers) Revision support: Lets you make… read more |
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As we traveled around the past few months showing Fidus Writer to different interested parties, one of the most common questions that came up was how to include graphs/charts and tables. Tables are generally a bit of a headache for anyone working with ebooks as one of the possible output formats. The author cannot know… read more |
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Fidus Writer has been open source for a few months, and we are already seeing some improvements that come from the community. Eugenio Battaglia has added an Italian translation, Ana Carolina Vera Resquín has translated into Spanish and Vladimir Vitkov into Bulgarian. Translating is something many non-programmers can contribute with as well and we are… read more |
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In the last few months we have been able to meet a lot of people with interest in Fidus Writer. We would like to spend as much time as possible developing and helping people setup Fidus Writer. Unfortunately, we also need to spend some time finding funding for all this. We are now trying with… read more |
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While programming Fidus Writer, we needed something to format bibliographic citations in the text and in the bibliography. At first we programmed something simple ourselves, but it grew into a major headache to get it to work in more specific cases and more advanced options. Ian Mulvany of eLife finally pointed us to the Citation… read more |