Atom for scholarly writing

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For writing we will use: https://atom.io/

Background reading:
- http://u.arizona.edu/~selisker/post/workflow/
- https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/sustainable-authorship-in-plain-text-using-pandoc-and-markdown
- http://plain-text.co
- https://the-javascripting-english-major.org/1-environment
- https://discuss.atom.io/t/using-atom-for-academic-writing/19222?u=benmarwick


Open Atom, then press Cmd+Shift+P to get the command palette, then type 'install packages', then select the item in the drop-down list that matches, to get settings window where you can install these packages

Open Atom and install these packages:

- citation and reference list
zotero-picker
autocomplete-bibtex

- word counting, style and safety
wordcount (need to turn it on after installing)
linter-write-good
linter-just-say-no (say 'yes' to all prompts)
autosave (Settings -> check the box to enable)

- markdown syntax
markdown-writer
markdown-preview-enhanced (Settings, Pandoc options, command-line, add: --filter=pandoc-citeproc)
language-pfm

- convert from md to docx, etc
pandoc-convert
platformio-ide-terminal (Cmd+Shift+T, then in the terminal: pandoc -s my.Rmd -o my.docx --filter pandoc-citeproc)

- version control
git-blame
git-plus
git-time-machine

- look and feel
typewriter
zen
highlight-selected
minimap
minimap-highlight-selected 
atom-file-icons
logo-file-icons
open-recent

- look and feel themes
Pen Paper Coffee
atom-material-ui

For storing and managing references we will use 
https://www.zotero.org/ and
https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/installation/

Advanced things, don't install these

- packages
teletype 
hydrogen
platformio-ide-terminal
split-diff