Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)
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On 09/25/07 19:27, Steve Lamb wrote:
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>
> Am I writing a book? Yes.
>
> Am I writing a technical book? No!
>
> I am writing fiction. I have no in-line graphics, complex font changes
> for examples, silly little icons to denote special sections, massive
> indention or the like. This is strictly line-after-line prose which
> could be done plain text except for the fact that I am making use of
> italics as a conscious style choice to reinforce when a character is
> /'thinking'/ something versus "saying" something.
>
> So, as I had repeated several times, I'm sure LaTeX is wonderful for
> what it is designed for. However it is not something I am interested in
> learning for the purposes I would put it to at this time. The constant
> hammering with examples which are far beyond the requirements of the
> style I writing I am engaging in is getting a tad tiresome. I want
> WYSIWYG because it helps me think about what is happening. I want
> simple and easy-to-convert to a common format because I don't know if
> and by whom this project would be picked up. I don't want a complex
Lyx, texlive-latex-recommended (for the memoir and rcs plugins) and
tex4ht (for exporting to Word or odt format) are what you want, then.
Create a simple template (/memoir/, from texlive-latex-recommended)
should point you in the right direction), and then start typing im
the GUI window.
Since it's plain multi-line text, mercurial won't have any problem
diffing the file and saving the changes.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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