in and out of useful
The continuous update process of Google Docs is somewhat annoying, esp since the last release lost some major capabilities. Most importantly from my point of view, we can no longer:
It used to be that you could go back to previous versions of their JavaScript implementation in order to work around changes that you did not like, but that features has evaporated too.
I am now at the point where I need to begin to decide what I will use for the write up of my research readings; I was hoping to use Google Docs (it is rather convenient in many ways), but I guess I will go back to the EMACS plus LaTeX plus Git tool suite, and use Google Docs upload anything feature (rather than GMail attachments) to snapshot my repository ....
- use block quote, my favorite markup for setting of long citations
- specify a cross-document default font that is not Arial
- fiddle with the CSS directly
- Use CTRL-nn to select the heading level (they threw in another meta-key)
It used to be that you could go back to previous versions of their JavaScript implementation in order to work around changes that you did not like, but that features has evaporated too.
I am now at the point where I need to begin to decide what I will use for the write up of my research readings; I was hoping to use Google Docs (it is rather convenient in many ways), but I guess I will go back to the EMACS plus LaTeX plus Git tool suite, and use Google Docs upload anything feature (rather than GMail attachments) to snapshot my repository ....