On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:32:57PM -0500, Doug Smith wrote: > What I want to do is to write a science fi???tion story series, put up a > web site, and publish this story series for sale. However, I don't > want to have to do it with a text editor. I want real word processing > software to do it with. :End-Quote: Have you tried contacting ExLibris? They will often take on new authors and publish their works on the web, rather than going through the trouble of running off a full-fledged printing that may or may not sell. As for jstar, it's likely only a text editor with WordStar key commands. Even WordStar professional used dot-commands to modify text attributes, since it wasn't a GUI word processor. You get the same effect by using tron/troff commands in a document in *nix. A couple keystrokes would hide or display those dot-commands, as well as the carriage returns at the end of each paragraph. WordStar Pro would just save each paragraph as a single line of text, but display it on-screen as being wrapped, as well as line text up on the right margin as well as the left, so it looked like your typical printed page. It did have a graphical print preview that would show you what the eventual printed page would look like though, but it was a CLI/text-only word processor. Since I barely have the GUI working on this thing, I can't tell you much more about the word processors in linux. Perhaps Open Office. Also, O'Reilly's tech manuals very closely match their HTML versions published on the web, so you might consider using HTML to format your text, rather than tron and troff. I never really got into the printing aspects of Linux. linuxprinting.org might have more info on the subject. HTH, Michael
