Ron Johnson wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/07 14:03, Joe Hart wrote:Hal Vaughan wrote:[snip]I am a writer, and I used Word to write my books. Personally I don't like OO Writer. It, just like MS Word is overblown. I still haven't found the Perfect Word Processor, but now at leastWhat do you need in a WP? Academic features (formal citations, embedded graphics, TOC, index, etc), movie/theater formating, something I haven't thought of? I guess what I'm asking is, "Why can't you use a full-featured *text* editor?" gvim or gedit, maybe, with a postprocessing tool to reformat output to typewriter (double-spaced, with 1 inch margins & headers) format? Such editors are definitely light-weight and ASCII files are small and totally portable.I can get the source code to one that I think is good, and if I can understand the code, I might even be able to make it my Perfect Word (Pun intended).Only greybeards will understand that pun.
Actually, my work is plain fiction, and the only features I need are basic editing, but the feature that I used the most was using headers to mark places and using the outline view to quickly locate different sections. I am getting older (I remember having to learn WP 5.1 at school) and my memory isn't what it used to be. I find myself having to look back to ensure that I keep names consistent. Can't very well have Kathy do something then have Karmen say later that she did it. It would probably help to keep index cards, but I am far to lazy. My best writing comes off the cuff.
Honestly, Kword is good enough. The biggest problem that I have is that I am in the Netherlands and write in English. I can't find a publisher here that wants to print books in English and my Dutch isn't good enough to translate.
I thought I could use the net and find a publisher in the U.S. but that's not how it works. Most publishers wont touch writers who don't have an agent and agents wont touch writers that haven't published.
Joe