On 11/14/2006 11:26 PM somebody named [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Wed, 15. November 2006 02:20 schrieb Ronald Wiplinger:
I am looking for a software, that can help to write Novels (especially
in German) for Linux.
I know you can use vi to write it, but I am looking for something like
"Novelwriter".
Never heared of Novelwriter but:
May be LyX or LyX-qt is what you are looking for?
LyX is a LaTeX based editor / textprocessing tool which is used to produce
high quality dokuments.
Give it a try I would say.
Ronald,
Though I'm not familiar with all of them, any of the previous
suggestions might be fine if you want to *write* a novel. If you want
to *publish* your novel, that is a different question.
To publish your writing, you need to submit your work in the format your
editor requests. (By "editor" here, I mean the human being who is
considering buying your novel. I believe the German term is
"Redakteur".) If the editor wants you to submit your novel in MS Word,
what format are you going to submit it in? And, unfortunately, most
editors in the US do in fact want your submission to be in Word. Some
prefer or will accept submissions in flat ASCII. Most editors are
profoundly unfamiliar with the relative merits of various text
processing and related software. I don't know what the situation is
with German-language publishing houses. You'll have to investigate that
yourself.
Personally, I use emacs and compose in html. But I know how to convert
from html to other formats and I'm pretty comfortable using emacs.
Sorry for the non-answer answer, but I thought it would be better than
an uninformed and misleading answer.
Let me know what you find out. I'd be interested in what the German
publishing industry does.
hth,
ken
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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance does whatever is dictated to it.
-- Thomas Paine
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