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The Textsmith Primer was written entirely in plain text.

The source was prepared with Quarto.

Examples were produced using Markdown, HTML, XML, LaTeX, Typst, AsciiDoc, and reStructuredText.

The manuscript was version-controlled with Git.

The bibliography was maintained in BibTeX.

The book itself is intended to demonstrate the philosophy it teaches:

write once, preserve always, publish everywhere.