User testimonial: Gazeta de Algol

Roberto Bechtlufft wrote me to tell that he moved all his old site about Phantasy Star (remember Sega’s Master System and Mega Drive?) to a PHP plus txt2tags solution.

“It was my first site and it was a mess. Now I’ve migrated everything to PHP and the all the contents are made with txt2tgs. Gee, now it is snappier, thank you, this program is incredible.”

He has documented the process on the site, telling why txt2tags was a great choice. His text is in Portuguese, but you can read the English version translated by Google, which is good enough (for a machine). ;)

Txt2tags article at Linux Magazine

If the Linux Magazine lands at your country, you’re a lucky guy. Check out the new Issue 80 from July 2007 to find a nice article fully devoted to txt2tags!

LinuxUser: Workspace: txt2tags - Write once and publish anywhere with this handy document generator. Note: There isn’t a link for the online version of the article, so I guess only the printed magazine will have it.

The man who made the article is our old time friend Dmitri Popov, who already wrote “Minimalist tools for writers” and created the excellent QuasiWiki (Txt2tags extension for OpenOffice.org).

Thanks again Dmitri!

Quit your text processor

Are you a writer? What about not using a text processor to write your text? Read on, I promise it will make sense :)

There’s a nice article about text-only writing at Linux.com. Three tools are mentioned to substitute the big memory-hungry Office processor:

• A text editor - Vi
• A formatting tool - txt2tags
• A spell checker - Aspell

Check it out! Minimalist tools for writers by Dmitri Popov.

For more detailed information, read the Writing Books with Txt2tags document.