Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

Virgil ,

the secret of styles for ebook publishing is the "OutLineLevel" you can 
uses any style but change your paragraph styles to the correct OutlineLevel

TITEL = OutlineLevel 1

            Subtitel = OutlineLevel 2

                    Subsubtitel = OutlineLevel 3 etc...to 9
> Wolfgang,
>
> I don't believe I've heard of "structure markup style concept" and I'm 
> not sure I understand what you mean. I used WordPerfect for years and 
> could never quite get the hang of WP's styles, all the while I took to 
> Word's and OO's (now LO's) styles quite easily. When I used WP, 
> everything was very typewriter-like, with commands being inserted in a 
> linear fashion until they were changed by a later command. Hence the 
> reason <reveal codes> was so essential with WP.
>
> Virgil
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Wolfgang Keller
> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 12:17 PM
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
>
> > For example, several years ago, my 14 year old son challenged himself
> > to type a 50,000 word novel in November, which is National Novel
> > Writers Month. He met his goal, and quickly dropped the project.
> >
> > As a proud papa, I wanted to put his document to paper. 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.
>
> I have to say that unlike MS Word and its clones OO and LO, Wordperfect
> *does* allow proper use of styles for "structure markup". Among the
> dozens of different document processing applications I have used over
> the past 25 years, Wordperfect was one of the best for authoring
> strongly structured documents, at par with Framemaker. Unfortunately it
> fell into the hands of an incompentent company (at Corel).
>
> Obivously, nothing (besides Indesign with a *competent* typographer
> in front of it) beats the typographic output of LyX/LaTeX, so if you
> want to produce a PDF ready for print, there's no other choice. I even
> use it for letters.
>
> Until they get redesigned to implement a proper "structure markup"
> style concept and correct typographic features (all line- and
> page-breaking algorithms from LaTeX are open-source), LO and OO have
> their value mostly for "generating" documents from databases.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Wolfgang


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