On 7/9/13 2:12 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > > Writer, Word and WordPerfect and others do seem to be designed for business > letters and fairly short works. LaTeX (and the various front-ends (such as > LyX) that attempt to make it easier to use) do seem to have advantages for > larger works but are more difficult to wrestle with in the beginning when you > are learning how to use them. Many people try and give up or find them a > total nightmare. However, people DO manage to use Writer to do larger books. > Piers Anthony, the famous sci-fi writer, mentions it in the preface to most > of his books. Also our Documentation Team. Our Documentation Team have even > published an ePub and since found an easier way of doing it. We should be > learning from them and gain from their experience. > > I have heard rave reviews about Scrivener, but was not impressed when I looked at it, but then I don't usually write books...... It looked very robust and comprehensive, but a bit complex as far as setting up your templates, but I suppose the same can be said of writer.
There is also a latex lab for google docs which I have played with if you want to be that granular.... -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
