Dear Chris,

You're not alone, and I enjoyed reading your note and Haris' reply. I seem to be in a similar situation to you. I too am an academic, though I am in the humanities. I occasionally think about just going "all LaTeX" but I am held in check by the fact that I would be the only using it in my field, in my department, in my building. I too have settled on a workflow built around MultiMarkdown because of its readability, its text file nature, and because it outputs such beautiful looking documents when you pass it through a CSS of your choosing.

I currently rely on other apps for my backup, but I have really longed for a svn set up, because I really would like the finer-grained control. With the switch to Leopard, I'm thinking of trying to make the push sometime soon, so please keep at least me posted on what you learn and how to do these things. (Jacob is laughing somewhere that I still haven't done this -- I tried this past summer to get an svn up and running, but I just didn't have the time to dedicate to what was a project in and of itself.)

john

-- John Laudun Department of English University of Louisiana – Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 337-482-5493 laudun@louisiana.edu