I've just spent several days surveying the landscape of book-authoring software. There are a number of ongoing efforts, however the only mature project is an Apple-only program called Scrivener.
While I use, and enjoy, OO Writer for my everyday word processing needs, writing an entire book or dissertation frequently calls for a different tool. It would be helpful to have a side pane that can be used for outlining purposes that will, when selected, call up a text for editing with Writer. A corkboard, or storyboard, would also be very helpful in organizing large projects and in quickly finding portions of huge, sprawling documents for editing. I cannot recommend this article more highly for explaining the philosophy behind a project such as this. This particular article examines an add-on for LyX, which is very interesting and is intended to be a clone of Scrivener. http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2009/03/04/perfect-tool Is anyone working on such a project with Open Office? Or would anyone be interested in trying? Thanks, Alan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
