On Wed, 2020-08-12 at 14:41 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-08-11 at 15:39 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> > So I put him on LO.  He is writing up a book or something.
> 
> A word processor, any word processor, is not a particularly good choice
> for writing a book.  They've long since gone from being a "word
> processor" to being a secretary's all-purpose convoluted typing tool.
> 
> They're not particularly conducive to writing paragraphs and pages as
> just paragraphs and pages, often horrible at very long documents, and
> not really good for doing page layout.  Probably not a very useful
> format if you were going to take a book to a printing house, either.
> 
> Latex is the usual suggestion for real authors, but will be even more 
> of a bastard to use if you're not into that kind of thing.

Agreed, though https://www.overleaf.com/ might be worth a look.

poc
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