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Originally Posted by lumpynose
For epub I thought doing that was a good thing because it ensured that you got a page break at the end of each chapter?
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Yes, it's best if each chapter gets its own HTML file.
Also, there's a ~300 KB filesize limit you should keep in mind. Many older ereaders with low RAM wouldn't be able to handle it.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
I mean...we get manuscripts all the time with each chapter in a separate file (I'm sure that somewhere in time, there was a reason for this, but with today's computers, for basic text?????), but that one...that takes the cake.
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Master Documents... but yes, probably 99.9% of the people doing separate documents aren't doing it for those reasons. :P
From what I gather, Google Docs also chugs if you have very large amounts of text in a single doc. Can't say I've seen the sluggishness with my own eyes, but maybe these people are working on very low-powered laptops/netbooks.
Side Note: In the LaTeX community, there's also a big push for separate files per chapter. Makes Version Control so much easier, and allows you to easily include/move/remove chapters.
Again, probably not the types of customers you're very likely to see. :P
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Originally Posted by Tarana
Not disagreeing with your recommendations, but OpenOffice was updated last year.
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Apache OpenOffice is on extreme life support (and has been for years).
From the
Apache OpenOffice Wikipedia article:
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In September 2016, OpenOffice's project management committee chair Dennis Hamilton began a discussion of possibly discontinuing the project, after the Apache board had put them on monthly reporting due to the project's ongoing problems handling security issues.
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There are only a handful of developers left (less than a dozen).
And Bug Fixes are extremely small. If you look at the amount fixed between 2017-2019 (4.1.4-4.1.6), it's... pathetic:
OpenOffice 4.1.5 Changelog
OpenOffice 4.1.6 Changelog
Compare this with
one release of LibreOffice:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.2
LibreOffice went from 5.4-6.2 in that same amount of time. It's also been releasing and patching consistently for years, and has dozens of active developers + hundreds of contributors.
Quick Political History: On the OpenOffice Wikipedia page above, you can see a map of the split:
2011. Oracle purchased OpenOffice. Huge rift caused, and LibreOffice (and nearly all the developers) split. Oracle drove OpenOffice into the ground.
2012. Sold to Apache. They tried to salvage what was there.
2013. Apache OpenOffice 4.0 incorporated a lot of the LibreOffice 4.1 fixes.
2014+. More and more stagnation. Extreme life support.