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gmw · 09-20-2018, 02:15 AM

I was supposed to be working, but your comment had me wondering, so I did a little more investigation...

Please be aware that LSB has not been updated in over 7 years*. This is something I think you should know before parting with your money. If the software does everything you want this might not be a problem, but after a 7 year hiatus I would not be expecting to see updates.

As far as I can see the external editor stuff will only be effective if you retain the RTF file format for your chapters, and that seems to preclude any chance of proper styles based editing. (Apparently RTF supports style-sheets but I've never seen it implemented effectively.)

* The executable is dated Feb 2011, and is identical to the executable I downloaded 6 years ago so it's not just a date glitch - hard to believe it was that long ago that I looked at this last.

09-20-2018, 02:15 AM	#11
gmw cacoethes scribendi Posts: 5,818 Karma: 137770742 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura One & H2Ov2, Sony PRS-650	I was supposed to be working, but your comment had me wondering, so I did a little more investigation... *Please be aware that LSB has not been updated in over 7 years.** This is something I think you should know before parting with your money. If the software does everything you want this might not be a problem, but after a 7 year hiatus I would not be expecting to see updates. As far as I can see the external editor stuff will only be effective if you retain the RTF file format for your chapters, and that seems to preclude any chance of proper styles based editing. (Apparently RTF supports style-sheets but I've never seen it implemented effectively.) * The executable is dated Feb 2011, and is identical to the executable I downloaded 6 years ago so it's not just a date glitch - hard to believe it was that long ago that I looked at this last. Last edited by gmw; 09-20-2018 at 02:50 AM. Reason: correction regarding RTF styles.