Saturday, November 02, 2019

Re: Tools for writers

> 2. nov. 2019 kl. 16:00 skrev Oliver Leaver-Smith <olijosm@gmail.com>:
>
> What tools do people find useful for writing on OpenBSD? By writing I mean long form such as novels and technical books, including plot and character development, outlining, and formatting for publishing (not all the same application necessarily)
>
> I have found a number which boast Linux support, but not really anything that stands out which supports OpenBSD (aside from the obvious LaTeX et al.)

I really can't speak to plot and character development, but all three editions of The Book of PF were written using OpenOffice and later LibreOffice write on OpenBSD snapshots.

Earlier versions of that manuscript were developed using DocBook SGML (editing with emacs), but the publisher (fortunately) did not want any truck with that.

For any new projects I would likely look half-heartedly for something markdown based but would probably end up going the LibreOffice route again.


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