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That works just fine. For my tastes, however, it's not quite as smooth a process or polished a result as with LyX/LaTeX. But, as I've said before, LyX/LaTeX have their own sets of problems.

Perhaps the best solution is the one a person will actually use to get the job done. One Scrivener reviewer commented that evaluating writing software is more fun than writing. I have found that true as I often spend more time trying to find the perfect writing tool than I do actually writing.

Many years ago, a person was talking to Mike Royko, a Chicago journalist about writing a book. He asked Mike what the best software was for doing the task. Mike replied something to the effect of, "Software? Look, son, get yourself a legal pad and a pen and just start writing."

Virgil

-----Original Message----- From: rost52
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:00 PM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

"As a proud papa..." I would open the document in Writer, select all and set styles to Default. Then
create the styles I wanted and reformat the whole document.

On 12.07.2013 01:17, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
For example, several years ago, my 14 year old son challenged himself
to type a 50,000 word novel in November, which is National Novel
Writers Month. He met his goal, and quickly dropped the project.

As a proud papa, I wanted to put his document to paper. He wrote the
original in WordPerfect, and it was a formatting mess, with stray
tabs, carriage returns, and inconsistent formatting across chapter
and section headings. I began the task of reformatting his 127 page
novel using WordPerfect, the original program. It didn't take long
for me to realize it would take days and days to wade through all of
the formatting codes inserted by WP.
I have to say that unlike MS Word and its clones OO and LO, Wordperfect
*does* allow proper use of styles for "structure markup". Among the
dozens of different document processing applications I have used over
the past 25 years, Wordperfect was one of the best for authoring
strongly structured documents, at par with Framemaker. Unfortunately it
fell into the hands of an incompentent company (at Corel).

Obivously, nothing (besides Indesign with a *competent* typographer
in front of it) beats the typographic output of LyX/LaTeX, so if you
want to produce a PDF ready for print, there's no other choice. I even
use it for letters.
  Until they get redesigned to implement a proper "structure markup"
style concept and correct typographic features (all line- and
page-breaking algorithms from LaTeX are open-source), LO and OO have
their value mostly for "generating" documents from databases.

Sincerely,

Wolfgang



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