On Apr 8, 2011, at 4:30 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I dislike word processors. (I've been forced to use OpenOffice for one > particular purpose recently and hate it.) I think that the process of > generating prose should be separate from producing print-ready copy. So > I do all my composing in Vim, which allows me to change things easily as > much as I like. If I want it to look nice I then import it into LyX, > which gives me publishable files. For short things like letters, I have > made latex templates which I read into vim.
Thanks, Anthony. I did all my writing from the early '80s till just a couple years ago on MaxThink, the legendary outlining program, which had absolutely no formatting capabilities. I totally buy the developer's [Neil Larson] philosophy for that application. The emphasis was on supporting thinking, and keeping things that distract you from thinking out of the way. MaxThink was/is a DOS application. Totally command-driven. An attempt at a version with a GUI was a complete flop. Even today, having finally reluctantly moved on from MaxThink, I keep formatting to a bare minimum -- bolding titles and headings, italicizing subheadings, occasionally footnoting -- and apply it only when sharing long documents with others. Yeah, I think I hate OpenOffice Writer as much as Word. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
