[texhax] Announcing CrossTeX, a powerful drop-in replacement for BibTeX.

Tom Schneider toms at ncifcrf.gov
Mon May 7 23:38:02 CEST 2007


Robert:

> CrossTeX is a new bibliography management tool ...

Nice!  I added it to my page

http://www.ccrnp.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/latex.html#latex.tex.resources

but the reason I'm writing is to note what happened in your email. 
Apparently you cut and pasted from somehere into a web form. 
Unfortunately the result is a bunch of fused words and unreadable
text.  The fused words were:

% spell < fusedwords
Itenables
alsosupports
anddocuments
automation
awell
butthrough
isbackwards
modelthat
objecttypes
ofreferences
orderto
overall,builds
problemsthat
renderbibliographies
whileproviding

(I removed the irrelevant ones.)

This happens to me on my Mac.  To avoid the problem, I usually write
my text in vi/vim and then format it to 80 characters wide using the
unix fmt tool.  That's how I'm writing this email.  I don't use cut
and paste on the text.

However, if one must cut and paste it into a web browser text window
(as in web based email), the result you got will happen.

To avoid THAT one can format the paragraph very wide:

fmt -w 1000

Cut and paste that output.

A REALLY nice solution would be to have full vim access inside web
browser text windows!!

Tom

  Dr. Thomas D. Schneider
  National Institutes of Health
  National Cancer Institute
  Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program
  Molecular Information Theory Group
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms at ncifcrf.gov
  permanent email: toms at alum.mit.edu (use only if first address fails)
  http://www.ccrnp.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/


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