> What tools do people find useful for writing on OpenBSD? By writing I mean > long form such as novels and technical books, including plot and character > development, outlining, and formatting for publishing (not all the same > application necessarily) > Hi, Not sure for plot and characters. I would recommend txt2tags [1], txtproc/txt2tags in ports. There is also a more up-to-date version written in python3 (2], both works fine. It can convert txt2tags syntax in different formats, such as html or tex (useful to get nice PDF). The most interesting imho are :
- ``postproc`` and ``preproc`` instruction. Sort of ``#define`` in C or ``\newcommand`` in LaTeX. Very useful. - ``include``. Also available in LaTeX. Have a look at [3] for an example. One might do markdown + sed + Makefile for the same result. Using txt2tags, I wrote a ≈350 pages book in PDF [4] and maintain it for a little more than two years now, very happy with txt2tags. If txt2tags is not enough, then LaTeX is great, but requires to learn a lot more to use it correctly. Regards. [1]: https://txt2tags.org/ [2]: https://github.com/jendrikseipp/txt2tags [3]: https://framagit.org/prx/auto-hebergement-openbsd/blob/master/src/auto-hebergement-openbsd.t2t [4]: https://ybad.name/ah/ -- prx
