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Thanks to all the input we received over the last few weeks we were able to hunt down a number of bugs and now feel comfortable releasing the current code as version 1.0. We also need to thank those not part of the core team who helped — especially Ana Carolina Vera Resquín for the… read more |
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We reccently decided we want to reach out to other projects and people operating in the same space as Fidus Writer and let them present issues important to the space we all operate in here — be it article creation, browser technologies or book design. We here start out by interviewing Peter Krautzberger of the… read more |
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After more than a year of development, we are proud to be able to announce that the Fidus Writer source code has been released under the AGPL license. The AGPL is an open source license ideal for web service based projects. If you want to contribute with code, translations or otherwise, please check out our… read more |
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When we started with Fidus Writer, we thought an academic editor would mainly be needed to write papers and individual articles for university students — always individual documents. Fidus Writer will continue to provide that functionality at its core. But several people looking at adding Fidus Writer to their editing flow also asked us —… read more |
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As we are moving closer to the 1.0 version, we are adding more and more features needed by academics. We try to keep it simple, but there are some things we feel were needed to just get somrthing together that can actually be used. we continuously add those features to the beta version as we… read more |
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Much has been said about the production of texts in the digital age. All text production has moved to the computer in the past two-three decades, and lately also online. It is therefore easy to assume that all texts have more or less the same production process. This is unfortunate, as it may mean that… read more |
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Fidus Writer has many disadvantages in comparison to the other editors for obvious reasons – the main one being that development has just started with a tiny team, while the others have thousands of people working on them. So the options available are more limited, as least for now. But there is a reason why… read more |
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Check out this tutorial if you wonder how you can make use of the Fidus Writer beta version. The tutorial takes you through the steps of creating a bibliography item, creating a document, citing the bibliography item, change citation and document styles, create comments and use the track changes feature. |
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It has been a long time, but finally we are there. The beta version is out! Check it out at test.fiduswriter.org. Compared with Google Docs writer, we are still missing many things, but there are already some things we have that isn’t present in Google Docs which is quite important for any academic writer. Among… read more |
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Notice: This information is only relevant for the outdated 1.0 version of Fidus Writer. CSS Regions have been eliminated from Fidus writer since. Fidus Writer requires a current version of Google Chrome to run. Additionally, if you want to be able to see individual pages in Fidus Writer, you need to enable “Enable experimental Web… read more |