On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 at 06:01, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not sure if that is any more efficient for at least 99.99% of all > use cases then using LibreOfiice/OpenOffice Writer, Microsoft Word or > WordPerfect on Windows or Linux GUI based systems. It depends what you want or need. In my day job as a text writer, I mostly work in DocBook XML or AsciiDoc, so I use FOSS editors for Linux that understand those formats. As a journalist and freelance tech writer, I mostly worked in an outliner. http://www.outliners.com/ This used to be a major category for DOS and in the DOS era there were many. https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/6291 However, these days, only one major WP still includes an outliner: MS Word. For this reason, I keep an old copy of Word under WINE on my Linux laptops: usually Word 97. None of the rest of Office, just Word. Sadly there is nothing else like its outliner any more. WPS Office has one but it's very clunky and I find WPS Office to have a bad UI these days -- it is mandatory Ribbon-style, which I hate. It used to have proper menus, but those old versions had a poor, barely-working outliner. LibreOffice doesn't have one at all, and nor does any other FOSS tool I know. (Note, there are 2 kinds of outliner: intrinsic and extrinsic. Extrinsic or 2-pane outliners are a sort of mind-mapping or organizing tool. Only intrinsic ones are any use to me as a writer. Sadly there are plentiful FOSS extrinsic outliners but they're no use to me.) -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
