On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 22:04 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:22:15 +0100, NOSpaze wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > I need to know what software f16 includes to aid in the task of writing > > a book (not just spelling and TOC). libreoffice I'm using, but is too > > slow and unappropriate when working with lots of text. Please dont' > > advise to change OS, I'm a sysadmin and need fedora on all my laptops. > > My wife has written three under Fedora, the first with abiword, > and the others with openoffice. The secret with the latter (which, as the > nearest thing she has to tech support, I advised against for the first) > is that it is modular. > > You can get into PackageKit, go through a list of the modules, > and make sure the ones you can count on never using are all uninstalled. > Modularity speeds Oo up, and my impression has been that uninstalling > unused stuff speeds it some more. I've written two books (Fedora Linux [650 pages] and X Power Tools [450 pages]) under OOo without significant problems -- though I tend to work chapter-by-chapter. Both of these were for O'Reilly, so I used their stylesheet (which is a bit psychedelic -- orange, red, and green headings, for example -- to make it easier to spot styling mistakes) and the documents were later transformed from ODT to their XML-based format for their internal workflow. Spending a half-hour or hour setting up a custom macro set and using a good stylesheet can make a world of difference when writing with OOo. -Chris -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
