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

That works just fine. For my tastes, however, it's not quite as smooth a 
process or polished a result as with LyX/LaTeX. But, as I've said before, 
LyX/LaTeX have their own sets of problems.

Perhaps the best solution is the one a person will actually use to get the 
job done. One Scrivener reviewer commented that evaluating writing software 
is more fun than writing. I have found that true as I often spend more time 
trying to find the perfect writing tool than I do actually writing.

Many years ago, a person was talking to Mike Royko, a Chicago journalist 
about writing a book. He asked Mike what the best software was for doing the 
task. Mike replied something to the effect of, "Software? Look, son, get 
yourself a legal pad and a pen and just start writing."

Virgil

-----Original Message----- 
From: rost52
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:00 PM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

"As a proud papa..." I would open the document in Writer, select all and set 
styles to Default. Then
create the styles I wanted and reformat the whole document.

On 12.07.2013 01:17, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
> > 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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