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Curious to learn
something
new?
About
Text?
Tools for
Legal Writing
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Motivation
For most of our tasks, we work with text:
- writing opinions
- writing eMails
- writing meeting minutes
- writing letters
- …and reading text from others
Goals
Focus on
(Legal) Writing
Focus on Collaboration
- concentrate on text
(and not on layout)
- make common things easy:
- text structure
- references and footnotes
- robust, automated versioning
- synchronisation between different working places
- collaborative working:
offline or in real-time
Capacity of Innovation
- Technology supports us in our writing tasks:
- duplication, modification
- fast communication
- Technology raises the bar to change our tools:
- “take it or leave it”: Windows 10, MS Word Ribbon Interface, back-doors, bugs, etc.
- modification of tools requires expert knowledge and freedom of modification (FOSS)
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FOSS Components for Legal Writing
Atom Text Editor
Zotero Bibliography Manager
Gitlab Versioning
Markdown Structured Writing
Legal Writing with Atom
Demonstration
- Writing Text (with Preview)
- Adding References
- Clear Writing Tips
- Save Changes
- Checkout PDFs
- Collaboration