On Wed, 2020-08-12 at 14:41 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > 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. > > 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. Agreed, though https://www.overleaf.com/ might be worth a look. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
