I've been using #OpenOffice for years. I finally took the plunge and installed #LibreOffice since, from what I can tell, OpenOffice hasn't had a major release in almost a decade.
I checked and all the features I used in OpenOffice are still basically where I expect them. I just need to adjust to the new toolbar icons. I'm sticking with my more traditional toolbars and menus.
Ability to easily set heading styles could make some of my RPG-related documents much easier to arrange.
@munroe #LibreOffice is now miles ahead of the old OO, and with recent work getting it into the 7.5-range, it is very stable, too.
Don't know what you write, but if it is at all formal, do yourself a favour and use paragraph styles just about everywhere, not just for headings. Makes appearance and editing so much easier. I almost never touch the tool bars for formatting.
@demerara
Yeah, #LibreOffice paragraph styles are certainly one of the things that interest me.
Depending on what I write, I use different applications.
If I'm not writing something to be printed, I'll usually use #UltraEdit to write in plain text. Then if I want to format it later, I'll open it in something else.
I mostly use the OpenOffice/LibreOffice Writer for single-page very-small print formatting-heavy #TTRPG stat-block pages, but also Calc for log sheets and forms stuff.
@demerara
Side note:
I just looked up #UltraEdit's current pricing. They've changed their pricing model.
In the mid-2000s, I bought a lifetime license for $100, which was, at that time, 2.5x the cost of their standard license ($40) that included 1 year of updates.
The software sold to another company and now they've moved to an annual subscription model for $80 or the option of buying it for $150 with one year of updates.
I hope they don't try to mess with my lifetime license.
@munroe Hmmm. I never heard of UltraEdit before. Looks like a very serious editor for programmers and so on.
Most of what I do these days is to get text for old pulp novels and short stories (usually I OCR images), then edit it for correctness and formatting, then turn it into an #epub.
#LibreOffice is very good for this task. Paragraph styles turn into good CSS using either #Calibre or #Jutoh.
RE: UltraEdit
More or less. I used it in the early 2000s when my friends and I were operating a website together. I never was a serious programmer, as I barely muddled through some of the basic aspects of Perl and PHP, but I needed something a bit more capable than Notepad just for the HTML. Plus I love the code folding and code highlighting.
I stopped playing at web development 20 years ago, but I still prefer UltraEdit to Notepad. I wouldn't buy it at today's price though.
RE: Converting old pulp novels and short stories.
That sounds really cool. Editing for correctness and formatting means you also get to read them all as you go. What do you do with them once you get them converted to epub?
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