Welp, I have just cancelled my Microsoft Office 365 recurring subscription.

Two reasons.

1. I only ever use it to check tracked changes to the copy edits on novels—once a year—which my publishers process in Word. As of this month, LibreOffice is good enough for the job (just tested at book length).

2. CoPilot in Office would open me up to accusations of breach of contract—my book contracts warrant that they're all my own work: CoPilot brings that into question.

So good riddance to Office365!

@cstross

I'm testing LO for highly formatted tech ebooks, and rocketing towards that same decision at ~.7C.

@mwl @cstross
Not sure it's that much relevant, but LaTeX support in the LibreOffice helped me to go through the uni years as an applied mathematics student without ever touching MS Word and MathType or equivalents. 20 years ago already.
So, I highly recommend grasping it for whatever challenge of writing and editing you have. Maybe it'd be even easier to use than you think.
@gemelen @mwl I have zero use for equation writing and LaTeX is absolutely horrible for everything else.
@cstross @gemelen @mwl Scribus looks nice as a "proper" book formatting product. I have had a need to use it for real (LyX and Latex got me through a thesis), but tinkering showed promise. https://www.scribus.net/
(Multi platform OSS)
Scribus – Open Source Desktop Publishing

@ingram @cstross @gemelen @mwl
Currently using Scribus to publish our local community magazine. Around 40 pages once a month. Output to PDF seems acceptable to my local print shop so far 👍 I can get an edition ready in about 2 days. It has python scripting which really helps with automating the ad placement. But we are off topic slightly here..

(Scribus is a page layout tool; more a replacement for Adobe InDesign than a word processing tool.)

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