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From: Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Monday, 8 July 2013, 21:58
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
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trying to write a book with LO Writer is like trying to force a square peg into a round hole.
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In my mind, Writer is a business application, useful for letters, memos, legal documents, school
reports, and the like.
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For organizing a book length document, with parts, chapters, and tables, indexes, and
sub-documents, etc, I much prefer LyX and LaTeX, both of which are free and opensource. Yes, the
LaTeX learning curve can be steep, but LyX makes it so much easier.
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He wrote the original in WordPerfect, and it was a formatting mess, with stray tabs, carriage
returns, and inconsistent formatting across chapter and section headings. I began the task of
reformatting his 127 page novel using WordPerfect, the original program. It didn't take long for
me to realize it would take days and days to wade through all of the formatting codes inserted by
WP.
Instead, I ... <snip /> ... loaded it into LyX. <snip /> The entire formatting process took
about a half hour. I surprised even myself.
I could have done the same thing with LO's styles and master documents, but they're not quite as
fully automatic as LyX/LaTeX, so it would have longer.
So far, however, I've found LyX/LaTeX's support for e-books to be a little lacking (but no more so
than LO's).
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In short, while I love LO, I honestly think there are better tools for the task of book and e-book
writing.
Virgil
2013.07.08. 7:34 keltezéssel, Pablo Dotro írta:
Greetings!
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Does anyone know about a tutorial, book or website where I can
specifically learn about creating a book-length document, with chapters
(as subdocuments) and a master document, consistent styling, indexing and
table of contents with LibreOffice?
Thank you very much for your time, and best regards,
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