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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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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 |
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Here it is! Our second interview about interesting topics in the wide space of publishing and communication in academia. This time we interviewed Jure Triglav who has started the interesting project ScienceGist. Read about Jure and his effort to open the spectrum of science communication. You recently started out with Science Gist. What is… read more |
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Since I am constantly harvesting the net for interesting articles and blogposts about anything academia, book or publishing related I would like to start sharing some of the most interesting links with you. This is what I found this week: “The Empire strikes back” is a blogpost by Eric van De Velde. He is looking… read more |
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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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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 |