Hi, How much can you get an external doubletalk for these days? or an artic or accent synth? email: jkenn337 at gmail.com skype: jkenn337 msn: kenn6498ku at hotmail.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaijin" <gaijin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:13 PM Subject: Re: 4DOS > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
