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Why books are not web pages

johanneswilm, May 9, 2013

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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How to self-publish your academic work

daniel, April 20, 2013

Recently more and more people came up with questions about how to self-publish your own work and how to make it open acces. So we are currently putting together a litte guide to answer all your questions. Until we find the time to finish it, you can read on an interview with Johannes back from… read more

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Libertas per Cultum Fidus Writer Beta

daniel, April 9, 2013

This is a screengrab of the Beta version of Fidus Writer. If you have any requests or ideas what tools you would like to have build in your soon to be open source academic editor don´t hesitate and drop us a line at daniel@fiduswriter.org .  

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Why should academics use Fidus Writer?

johanneswilm, April 2, 2013

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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Fidus Writer Beta Tutorial

johanneswilm, April 2, 2013

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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Beta version is out!

johanneswilm, March 19, 2013

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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How do I enable page views in Fidus Writer? (outdated)

johanneswilm, March 15, 2013

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

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Why are there so many citation styles?

johanneswilm, March 13, 2013
This is what a professor looks like. The person in the picture is not affiliated with Fidus Writer and we do not know what citation style he uses. Photo by: Juraj Kubica

Are there really good reasons to have so many styles. Those of us with a more humorous view of human society will conclude that likely anyone who has been at university too long will eventually have to develop small hobbies around which to center one’s life, as the initial task set out to solve—understand the… read more

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A video of the alpha version

johanneswilm, March 13, 2013

This video was produced in September/October, when we were still in the staring part of development of Fidus Writer. Since then we have developed it quite a bit more. We now have support for footnotes, comments and tracking of changes, which has meant that the toolbar had to move to the top. We will likely… read more

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