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

Hi :)
+1
Well said! :)  The tools sometimes get in the way of doing the job.  Yes, keep learning new tricks 
and better ways when idling along but just use whatever you are comfortable with when you need to 
get a job done.  
Regards from 
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>
> To: rost52 <bugquestcontri@online.de>; users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Friday, 12 July 2013, 12:30
> Subject: 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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