On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 05:27:02PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Good thing that what I'm writing is not at all complex. The two most > complex things are italics and indent-first-line. [...] > 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.
I know you've settled on OOo, but it's worth pointing out that TeX is a simple language if you're writing a simple document. In particular you are already writing valid plain TeX in your email. Copy the above (without the >'s) into file.txt; change /'thinking'/ to {\it thinking} and "saying" to ``saying''; type "pdftex file.txt" and "\end". file.pdf looks like http://sns.phys.utk.edu/~mahurin/du/09-25.pdf, which I think is what you're after. Good luck with your writing. Rob -- Rob Mahurin Dept. of Physics & Astronomy University of Tennessee phone: 865 207 2594 Knoxville, TN 37996 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]