Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:04:03PM -0700, TW wrote:
I'm going to be writing a political book soon and I'm not
sure what software to use to write it.
I want to use something like Vim to write it, but, I want
to be able to convert it to OpenOffice/MicrosoftWord, etc. format(s).
The reason that I want to use something like Vim is because I'd be
able to make a more censored version of the book on the fly for
certain people to download (underagers, for instance). I thought
that latex would be what I needed, but I'm not sure. I thought
DocBook, but isn't that for documentation? I need something that
goes the whole nine yards, The Little Brown Handbook style (footnotes,
etc.). Thanks for the help.
There seems to be a module that converts LaTex into just about anything,
Can it convert from latex to odt format? I have spent quite a bit of
time unsuccessfully searching for something that would do it without
causing a lot of grief. Please point me to it. It would be a life saver
in those cases where people insist on receiving documents in .doc
format. Last time, I ended up making the document in OpenOffice and
exporting it as word. It was a pain (the writing part, not the export).
so I'd go with LaTex. I've never used or had need of outputting to
Microsoft Word. If you need to distribute read-only to people, just
make them pdf's from the LaTex. Or HTML. (either will do hypertext
links from the TOC and note markers). Being a plain-text format, you
should be able to make different versions (sensored you say) for people.
Doug.
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