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Online Markdown Editor - Dillinger, the Last Markdown Editor ever. A New Take On Text Messages. Text messaging is pretty impersonal.

A New Take On Text Messages

When I was younger a text was for something quick. Like “I’m running late” or “I’ll call you back.” Now you have entire conversations over text. Back and forth until someone finally stops. Rather than seeing each other or talking on the phone, you’ve learned everything you need to know through a text. What if you could make text messaging beautiful by going old school? Cristina Vanko decided to do just that. She began by drawing doodles with the pen, taking a picture and sending them as picture messages to her friends. Her rules: My rules for this type experiment were simple: create handwritten text messages for 7 days, i.e. no using the keyboard on my phone to send a message.

The responses she received were very different. Growing up I learned the importance of writing hand written letters. Here are just a few things that she learned from her experiment: For the rest of the details on her experiment and what she learned visit Cristina’s website. Et si nous envoyions nos courriels au format texte ? Par Frédéric Bordage - 03/01/2013 Afin de valider l’intérêt d’une bonne pratique que nous conseillons dans le livre éco-conception web : les 100 bonnes pratique, je viens de faire une étude rapide du gain potentiel du passage de courriels au format HTML au format texte brut, tant d’un point de vue économique qu’environnemental.

Et si nous envoyions nos courriels au format texte ?

Les courriels au format texte 12 fois moins lourds L’échantillon sélectionné est composé de 7 e-mails, tous au format HTML. Cinq d’entre eux sont des courriers classiques dont l’un possède une pièce attachée (document Word d’environ 25 Ko). Les deux autres sont des lettres d’information (newsletter). L’étude comparative de cet échantillon révèle que les courriels au format texte pèsent en moyenne 3 fois moins lourd que les courriels au format HTML si on ne tient pas compte des images associées. Un gâchis annuel de 8 millions de To 100 000 euros d’économies par an pour une grande entreprise Source : GreenIT.fr. Doxia - The APT format.

Block level elements Title A title is optional.

Doxia - The APT format

If used, it must appear as the first block of the document. ------ Title ------ Author ------ Date A title block is indented (centering it is nicer). After the first --- line, one or several consecutive lines of text (implicit line break after each line) specify the title of the document. This text may immediately be followed by another --- line and one or several consecutive lines of text which specifies the author of the document. The author sub-block may optionally be followed by a date sub-block using the same syntax. The following example is used for a document with an title and a date but with no declared author. ------ Title ------ ------ Date ------ The last line is ignored. Note: the date has no specific format and will be parsed as string.

Where YYYY is the year in the Gregorian calendar, MM is the month of the year between 01 (January) and 12 (December), and DD is the day of the month between 01 and 31. Paragraph Paragraph 1, line 1. List. Wiki: TextFormattingRules. Overview 1.

Wiki: TextFormattingRules

Tips and Hints 2. Text Formatting Notation Help. Simple Guide for Formatting Reddit Text. Creating Beautiful Looking Documents with LaTeX. Around the world word processing applications like Microsoft Office Word or OpenOffice.org Writer are used to write any kind of documents.

Creating Beautiful Looking Documents with LaTeX

Since the first time I began to use a computer I used a word processor to write anything too, since love letters to my (at the moment) girlfriend (who's now my wife) to my lab reports. On college it came to my notice that documents from academic environments aren't created using word, many of them are created using a typesetting system known as LaTeX. LaTeX has more of a programming language than of a word processing application, that's because it is not a WYSIWYG editor, it isn't an editor at all, it is a markup language that has to be compiled as a document.

All you need to start writing documents using LaTeX is a text editor and what's called a "LaTeX distribution", the "software" that compiles the document. Learning LaTeX isn't easy but using an editor like Texmaker simplifies much of the process. \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \maketitle.