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Dngrsone · 03-21-2014, 07:48 AM

I use Libre Office in Linux Mint, which is an off-shoot of Ubuntu. For a while I was converting straight to .pdb since my ebooks were all residing on a Palm OS PDA.

I am gettting a handle on using styles in LO, but a lot of my actual writing goes better, I find, if I do the text portion in a text editor such as gedit and then copy the unformatted text from there into LO for any speicifc formatting.

I wish I could write HTML on-the-fly; I'd probably do the whole thing in gedit and not have to worry about converting stuff, but I am not there yet.

03-21-2014, 07:48 AM	#64
Dngrsone Almost legible Posts: 1,457 Karma: 4611110 Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: In a high desert, CA Device: Galaxy Note 9, Galaxy Tab A (2017), Likebook P78	I use Libre Office in Linux Mint, which is an off-shoot of Ubuntu. For a while I was converting straight to .pdb since my ebooks were all residing on a Palm OS PDA. I am gettting a handle on using styles in LO, but a lot of my actual writing goes better, I find, if I do the text portion in a text editor such as gedit and then copy the unformatted text from there into LO for any speicifc formatting. I wish I could write HTML on-the-fly; I'd probably do the whole thing in gedit and not have to worry about converting stuff, but I am not there yet.