by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At last, I continue a series of essentials for writers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The first Some Essentials for Writers<\/a> was posted December 10th, 2012. I actually promised that I would write some more parts to that post. Well, 7 1\/2 years later, here we go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have been working recently with things called Jekyll, Markdown, GitHub, Git, and the Atom editor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The one thing in common for all is ASCII<\/a> text. American Standard Code for Information Interchange. The aforementioned Atom is an ASCII text editor that has lots of features to it. I guess it is better at many things than my old favorite Vim. (I still like Vim better.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The one great advantage of ASCII is that it seems to live forever. I guess it won\u2019t actually live forever, but I have been working with ASCII text since the late 1970s (yes, I am that old) and as long as I copy files from floppy disks before all the floppy disk hardware dies, I am okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Writings I wrote using WordStar are unreadable, unless you have a copy of WordStar still running. Writings I wrote using WordPerfect are unreadable, unless you have a copy of WordPerfect running. There are pieces of software that can convert WordStar and WordPerfect files, but with ASCII, just about any computer can read ASCII.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Long live ASCII. And by the way, I have a Kaypro<\/a> portable computer that runs CP\/M<\/a> and WordStar. Still the best display and keyboard for writing ever made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips At last, I continue a series of essentials for writers. The first Some Essentials for Writers was posted December 10th, 2012. I actually promised that I would write some more parts to that post. Well, 7 1\/2 years later, here we go. I have been working recently with things called Jekyll, Markdown, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[292,5],"tags":[295,128],"class_list":["post-3259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools","category-writing","tag-tools","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3260,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions\/3260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}