Auto Complete Mode is the most intelligent auto-completion extension for GNU Emacs. Auto Complete Mode renews an old completion interface and provides an environment that makes users could be more concentrate on their own works.

If you have the ISBN (International Standard Book Number) for a publication, you can generate a citation for it in the BibTeX format.

This is the successor of ReallySimpleWikiMode and got integrated into EmacsHttp?. See WikiModeDiscussion for comparisons. All it does is add a keybinding to insert some tags, and the hilighting of tags plus WikiNames. If you are editing wiki pages within Emacs, this is quite elegant.

The caption package provides many ways to customise the captions in floating environments like figure and table, and cooperates with many other packages. Facilities include rotating captions, sideways captions, continued captions (for tables or figures that come in several parts). A list of compatibility notes, for other packages, is provided in the documentation.

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What is this about? This wiki is a catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction.

Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clichés. The word clichéd means "stereotyped and trite." In other words, dull and uninteresting. We are not looking for dull and uninteresting entries. We are here to recognize tropes and play with them, not to make fun of them.

Verbatim code in a framed figure box using LaTeX

One of the best known KDE BibTeX frontends is KBibTeX, developed by Thomas Fischer. KBibTeX sports many interesting features, including handy integration with Kile, an integrated editor for LaTeX built on the KDE Platform. KBibTeX is built on KDE 3.5; a port to KDE Platform 4 is in progress.

Luca Beltrame took the opportunity to ask Thomas about KBibTeX, the KDE Platform, science and KDE. Read on for his thoughts and to find out what the KDE Science team can do for you.

Wrttn is a simple notepad with many useful features, the main one being that you can save as much text as you like while taking advantage of the formatting options markup languages such as Textile or Markdown give you.

Auch routinierten Schreibern fällt es nicht leicht, mit Volontären, freien Mitarbeitern oder Kollegen Texte zu analysieren, meint der Journalist Peter Linden. Oft gebe es ein Gefühl des Unbehagens: "Hier stimmt etwas nicht." - "Das hätte ich so nicht geschrieben". Aber es sei schwierig, dieses Unbehagen zu begründen oder dem beliebten Einwand "alles doch nur eine Frage des Geschmacks" sachlich zu begegnen. In dem Buch "Wie Texte wirken", das gerade in dritter Auflage bei der ZV Zeitungs-Verlag Service GmbH erschienen ist, stellt Peter Linden eine Methodik der Textanalyse vor, die Schreibern und kritischen Lesern mehr Sensibilität für die (journalistische) Sprache vermittelt.

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Exemplar allows you to see how a particular term or phrase is used in peer-reviewed, published literature. Need the full text? It’s one click to the source.