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Originally Posted by gmw
Ah, but had I been able to sway you over to a more flexible point of view then whole new vistas of opportunity would have opened up. There's a line I love out of Pride & Prejudice that fits here: Excuse my interference, it was kindly meant.  |
REGARDLESS:
A comment about YWriter:
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If there's anyone else here, that wants to find software that is excellent writing software, particularly for fiction projects that are scene-based, I can cheerfully vouch for YWriter--which I shan't categorize as "free" in any sense, as apparently, that's a trigger word here. If you wish to use YWriter, sans payment, you are FREE to do so. The developer will cheerfully accept a donation of $25, for the "licensed" version, which has exactly O additional features. I license it, because I like to support software that I think has value, much as I donated heavily to Sigil back when Valloric and then User_none, etc., were accepting donations. Why? Because 99%
of all "open source" software goes down the crapper, due to the fact that people don't want to work for nothing, and have zero interest in donating their time to software that won't reward them. Such is life.
A comment about other "writing" software:
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I've tried and used probably 15 different "writing" systems/software. Half because I was curious; half because it's somewhat my line of work. Most, IMHO, regardless of the price, spend entirely too much time trying to make the buyers feel like "real writers" rather than making the writing tasks themselves useful/efficient. It's like LSB XE, which has a character/scene timeline--that you have to fill out yourself. Gee, thanks, like I couldn't have done that with something else, like a mindmap? (Whereas, the inexpensive/no-cost YWriter does it FOR you. Now, to me, that's value.)
Back to the issue of sending LO/OO/whatever to HTML--I can see that if you are going to use Calibre to make an eBook, that naming thing gets to be an issue. I see the stylename-number thing in lots of eBooks that somehow, wend their way around the net, until they find us, to be "fixed," which Calibre-33 or whatever as their styles and naming conventions. Really, the Writer2ePUB thing doesn't work around this?
@arjaybe:
Presumably, OO/LO has something equivalent to Track Changes in Word, is that right? What you describe as your initial problem sounds to me like what I see when a Word user does not "accept all changes in Document" before exporting to HTML. Any chance that's what is happening with you?
Hitch