Re:Word Fails Me - Why doesn’t Microsoft’s writing tool actu...
by sketerpot on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @09:01PM
(#1362926)
I don't know what kind of books you're writing, but 100,000 pages is too many pages. Did you mean 100,000 words?
I've only ever written 50,000 word NaNoWriMo stuff, but I've had a lot of success with text files, simply marked-up, in emacs. One text file per chapter. A short Python script converts them into LaTeX and a makefile builds a PDF. All the notes are handled with org-mode. It's a really sweet setup.
Re:Word Fails Me - Why doesn’t Microsoft’s writing tool actu...
by Qz on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @10:01PM
(#1363029)
typo - fixed :)
as for LateX/python stuff - the article is addressing the needs of the average writer, of which those who know anything resembling python are a small small subset.
I've only ever written 50,000 word NaNoWriMo stuff, but I've had a lot of success with text files, simply marked-up, in emacs. One text file per chapter. A short Python script converts them into LaTeX and a makefile builds a PDF. All the notes are handled with org-mode. It's a really sweet setup.