Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

On 08/30/2014 07:34 AM, James Wilde wrote:
> On 2014-08-30 13:29, Tom Davies wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > Hmm, sadly Writer doesn't seem to do quite the same thing as GEdit.
> Tom, I have an idea that there is a find/copy/paste add-on for LO which
> works on multiple files.  I used it when I was using LO for my writing
> (I now use Scrivener for books and such).  I could change the name of a
> character throughout a book with a simple command.
>
> James

Yes, I remember something like that as well, but I do not remember what 
it was or what version of LO it was used with.

That would be real handy for book authors and editors.

Piers Anthony, a highly regarded SciFi and Fantasy writer, used Fedora 
and LO for writing his books.  He is in his mid 70's now so he has 
scaled back to 1 or 2 books per year, instead of 3 or more.  He has 
created macros to help him do the work he needs and uses a different 
keyboard layout than the standard QWERTY keyboard.  In one of his 
Author's Notes, he stated that he needed a package that worked with his 
type of keyboard and had the ability to create/use the types of macros 
he needs for making his writing easier.  He seems to be a big "fan" of 
having multiple documents open at the same time and editing across those 
documents.

SO, you should be able to find the extension needed for your 
cross-document editing.

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