[Assorted-commits] SF.net SVN: assorted: [736] personal-site/trunk/src/recommendations.txt

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Revision: 736
          http://assorted.svn.sourceforge.net/assorted/?rev=736&view=rev
Author:   yangzhang
Date:     2008-05-08 12:19:08 -0700 (Thu, 08 May 2008)

Log Message:
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updates to software recommendations

Modified Paths:
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    personal-site/trunk/src/recommendations.txt

Modified: personal-site/trunk/src/recommendations.txt
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--- personal-site/trunk/src/recommendations.txt	2008-05-08 19:18:39 UTC (rev 735)
+++ personal-site/trunk/src/recommendations.txt	2008-05-08 19:19:08 UTC (rev 736)
@@ -1,22 +1,27 @@
+% Software Recommendations
+% Yang Zhang
+
+<!--
 Software recommendations
-------------------------
+-->
 
 Some underdogs that more people should know about.
 
-- [toast]: Automated software retrieval, compilation, installation, and removal
-  with safe compartmentalization and non-root usage. Works without hassle 90%
-  of the time.  Supports a variety of package types, including autotools, plain
-  prefix-dir, plain make, [distutils], [Cabal], and more.
+- __[toast]__: Automated software retrieval, compilation, installation, and
+  removal with safe compartmentalization and non-root usage. Works without
+  hassle 90% of the time.  Supports a variety of package types, including
+  autotools, plain prefix-dir, plain make, [distutils], [Cabal], and more.
 
 [toast]: http://toastball.net/toast/
 [Cabal]: http://www.haskell.org/cabal/
 [distutils]: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-distutils.html
 
-- [pandoc]: [Markdown] done right.  A sane markup (structured text) language
-  supporting a variety of input and output formats, including HTML, man, and
-  TeX.  [AsciiDoc] is a close runner-up; [ReST] is more complex.  Hopefully the
-  future will yield markup languages with greater extensibility and enough
-  flexibility to be used in everything from [wikis] to comment documentation.
+- __[pandoc]__: [Markdown] done right.  A sane markup (structured text)
+  language supporting a variety of input and output formats, including HTML,
+  man, and TeX.  [AsciiDoc] is a close runner-up; [ReST] is more complex.
+  Pandoc includes support for both of these.  Hopefully the future will yield
+  markup languages with greater extensibility and enough flexibility to be used
+  in everything from [wikis] to comment documentation.
 
 [AsciiDoc]: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/
 [Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
@@ -24,7 +29,7 @@
 [pandoc]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
 [wikis]: http://code.google.com/p/pandocwiki/
 
-- [rubber]: A usable frontend for LaTeX and all its friends: BibTeX, image
+- __[rubber]__: A usable frontend for LaTeX and all its friends: BibTeX, image
   converters, etc.  Similar to but more modular than [latexmk].
 
 [rubber]: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~beffara/soft/rubber/
@@ -32,7 +37,8 @@
 
 <!-- TODO ensure the following is formatted correctly. -->
 
-- [Gobby]: A collaborative text editor.  Examples of things I've used it for:
+- __[Gobby]__: A collaborative text editor.  Examples of things I've used it
+  for:
   - peer programming
   - whiteboard
   - online meetings (everybody ends up communicating exclusively in the
@@ -46,25 +52,32 @@
 [Gobby]: http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/
 [screen]: http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
 
-- [Opera]: The fastest, smallest browser I've used is also the most usable and
-  comes with the most features out of the box. Its M2 mail client is awesome
-  too, but alas, it's too buggy.  [KHTML] is probably the closest-performing
-  engine, but I've found it to be too crash-prone.
+- __[Opera]__: The fastest, smallest browser I've used is also the most usable
+  and comes with the most features out of the box. Its M2 mail client is
+  awesome too, but alas, it's too buggy.  [KHTML] is probably the
+  closest-performing engine, but I've found it to be too crash-prone.
 
 [Opera]: http://www.opera.com/
 [KHTML]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML
 
-- [gprof2dot]: A handy tool for visualizing the callgraph results of gprof, the
-  Google CPU profiler, python cProfile, and more.
+- __[gprof2dot]__: A handy tool for visualizing the callgraph results of gprof,
+  the Google CPU profiler, python cProfile, and more.
 
 [gprof2dot]: http://code.google.com/p/jrfonseca/wiki/Gprof2Dot
 
-- [wtf]: A filter for `g++`'s obscure page-long template errors. Resulting
+- __[wtf]__: A filter for `g++`'s obscure page-long template errors. Resulting
   error messages are readable and beautified. See also [gstlfilt].
 
 [wtf]: http://nmstl.sourceforge.net/doc/nmstl-guide.html
 [gstlfilt]: http://www.bdsoft.com/tools/stlfilt.html
 
 <!--
+Preferred Applications
+
+- web browser: [Opera]
+- mail client: [Thunderbird]
+-->
+
+<!--
 vim:ft=mkd:et:sw=2:ts=2:nocin
 -->


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