Re: [Libreoffice] Writing a book w/F16?

On Sat, 2011-12-10 at 10:17 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-12-10 at 13:57 +0100, NOSpaze wrote:
> > On Sat, 2011-12-10 at 20:50 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > > On 12/10/2011 08:34 PM, Craig White wrote:
> > > > is there any doubt who this NOSpaze is?
> > >
> > > Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo 
> > >
> > > Why do you ask?
> >
> > Yea thats me, why do you ask? are you my neighbor?
> ----
> I was wrong... in that case, I will answer.
>
> sgml has long been used for professional publishing ( see adobe
> framemaker).
>
> The idea is that you can use fast/simple editors such as vi or emacs and
> put in your own markup tags and save the processing (ie, generate
> toc/footnotes/end notes/appendix/etc.) for later.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll read how to do a TOC, footnotes and
commenting/tagging paragraps, summarizing in vim. If you can suggest any
link, TIA. "your own markup tags"... I wouldn't use sgml/xml, but i'll
wait for any links on how to apply them effectively.

> WYSIWYG is an obstacle to writing but is in fact an artifact of
> publishing and in that case, you can merely concentrate on writing and
> leave all of the stylizing until the writing is finished.

WYSIWYG "is an obstacle to writing"? Damn! I knew it! Tell it to the
LibreOffice team. They need to know it.

> Seemed to me to be a more than adequate suggestion that you mocked.

I do really appreciate your help, just it sounded illogic. Sorry for
making fun. I live it.

:)
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NOSpaze <nospaze@gmail.com>