Sorry to disagree...
From: "Tim via users" <users@lists.fedoraproject.org<mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> Date: Wednesday, 12 August 2020 at 07:12:26 To: "users@lists.fedoraproject.org" <users@lists.fedoraproject.org<mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> Cc: "Tim" <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au<mailto:ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au>> Subject: Re: Any subs for Libreoffice? On Tue, 2020-08-11 at 15:39 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > So I put him on LO. He is writing up a book or something. A word processor, any word processor, is not a particularly good choice for writing a book. They've long since gone from being a "word processor" to being a secretary's all-purpose convoluted typing tool. They're not particularly conducive to writing paragraphs and pages as just paragraphs and pages, often horrible at very long documents, and not really good for doing page layout. Probably not a very useful format if you were going to take a book to a printing house, either. I’ve written several YA books (each 120K -150K words), all done with LibreOffice. For the proof-of-concept, I even did the complete cover and spine with LibreOffice. Without *any* adjustments it produced perfect paperbacks and hard-covers. After several edit-iterations, the publishing house kept it that way. Latex is the usual suggestion for real authors, but will be even more of a bastard to use if you're not into that kind of thing. That depends. I only once was forced to use Latex. When including a single formula, you still can do this with L.O. But once I turned my math notes into something more readable. For such purpose LO (or OO, ms-word or anything else) are totally unusable. Then you need context-free data entry. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.18.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 26 15:27:06 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Dit bericht kan informatie bevatten die niet voor u is bestemd. Indien u niet de geadresseerde bent of dit bericht abusievelijk aan u is toegezonden, wordt u verzocht dat aan de afzender te melden en het bericht te verwijderen. De Staat aanvaardt geen aansprakelijkheid voor schade, van welke aard ook, die verband houdt met risico's verbonden aan het elektronisch verzenden van berichten. This message may contain information that is not intended for you. If you are not the addressee or if this message was sent to you by mistake, you are requested to inform the sender and delete the message. The State accepts no liability for damage of any kind resulting from the risks inherent in the electronic transmission of messages.
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