Text2ePub-clj – Convert plain text into .epub on Clojure

Category : Software

Text2ePub-clj is freeware written in Java/Clojure (the source code is accessible publicly). Although rich document with photos, graphs, drawings might not be too bad, the basis of  developers should be text file. It is easy to write or edit. Furthermore, we can write it hand over hand using a favorite text editor.

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making text into ePub

Not only developers but also novelists can compete only in attractive writing using text, omitting extra figures or character decorations. Text2ePub-clj will help us bind such text files into ePub, which is the basic format of e-books.

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PyMacAdmin, controls Mac OS X by command line

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PyMacAdmin is open source software of Python utilities. I’m very interested in this software, but I regret that I’ve lost Mac OS X 10.5 environment on my computer…  Though we can execute various operations by using a terminal on Mac OS X because it is based on Unix,  there are still operations that we can’t execute on it by a terminal.

The Installer of PyMacAdmin is provided.

For example, it seems that we can’t operate the network settings or the access to the Keychain by a terminal on Mac OS X 10.5.  (I’m not sure about the current version.)  PyMacAdmin resolves these matters and enables us to operate them by a terminal.

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Gow (Gnu On Windows) – A lightweight alternative to Cygwin

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Gow is one of OSS products for MS Windows.
For those who usually use Linux or Mac OS X, command line operations are real pains when they switch to Windows. As we have no choise but to use GUI on it, it would be convenient if we can do some work on a command line.

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Over 130 commands

In that case, I used to use Cygwin. But I didn’t like it bacause of its frequent changes of registries and the naming “cygdrive” itself.
If you want to use just commands simply, try Gow.

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