Re: Tools for writers

Mr. Hansteen what are your thoughts on Texlive?

On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 9:16 AM Peter Nicolai Mathias Hansteen <
peter@bsdly.net> wrote:

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> > 2. nov. 2019 kl. 16:00 skrev Oliver Leaver-Smith <olijosm@gmail.com>:
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> > 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)
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> > 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.)
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> 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.
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> Earlier versions of that manuscript were developed using DocBook SGML
> (editing with emacs), but the publisher (fortunately) did not want any
> truck with that.
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> 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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