I used an early version of Word for Windows for writing
a 1,000-page document. No mark-up language required.
It also produced automatically the index.
When I wanted to put more entries in the index,
it was a minute's work. Then press F8 and the entire index
was regenerated as a Word document in about two minutes.
On 2022-12-27 19:23, Colin Paice wrote:
It may be horses for courses...
1. What needs to be supported Windows/Mac/Linux?
2. Do you want a few page document or a 200 page document and imbed
other sections
3. Do you want to be able to print chapters, or just the whole book.
4. Do you table of contents
5. Do you want change bars to show you what has changed
6. What is your output - PDF, one HTML document - an HTML tree?
7. Number of concurrent maintainers so 1) & 2) are relevant
I run on Linux, which limits my choice of tools.
I've used Latex to write a 200 page document. If you think of
Scriptvs,
and book master, you'll get the idea. You can write macros to provide
complex formatting.
It allows you to have change bars to show you what's changed. You have
to
add them manually.
I use reText as editor, and real time review
You can tell how old I am when my brain thinks of ":p....:h1.... " when
marking up a document
Colin
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