![]() ![]() That Mellel Word Processor sounds very interesting. Libre Office would have been a good choice, but when I started out with Softmaker, Libre Office wasn't as good with MS compatibility, which was something at the time I cared about. But I love having tools that act seamlessly the same whether I am using Windows or Linux. Yes, I do imagine if I had a Mac, my tools would be different. It certainly handles whatever I throw at it, but I don't tend to go over 250K words. It definitely slows down at 4 million words, lol, but I don't know if that's Softmaker Office or using Windows with 8GB or less. ![]() I've always found Softmaker pretty robust and reliable on any computer with a decent but not-cutting-edge chip-RAM configuration. ![]() Story points sounds interesting, akin to what I informally regard in my own workflow as "way points" where I check to see if I am moving closer to the previously conceved endpoint of the story and consider whether what has happened at the way points so far has indicated changes to the end point. Word compatibility is likely to be important in future jobs.ĭevonthink, though. LibreOffice is a candidate, of course, but I see Softmaker might be a better fit for me. I mull the idea of migrating my personal operations back to Linux from Mac. I rebel against cutesy pre-formatted character sheets. I haven't actually used them yet for much, but plan to. A story point is a point in a manuscript where zero or more characters do something at zero or more locations. Story points, by the way, are sort of an alternate navigation feature. The last paste of two million words into somewhere in the middle of the document took barely longer than an eye blink, and it scrolled smoothly from beginning to end. Other than that, Mellel is pretty solid.įor a test, I used copy-all and paste to build up to a four million word document. How is Softmaker's performance and reliability? I recently found a glitch in Mellel's story points feature. StarOffice, the progenitor of Open/LibreOffice, was also German. Softmaker looks nice, and it's a second major office suite from Germany. I only use a word processor for editing, rewriting and formatting. I don't use it for "distraction free writing" (i.e., drafting)- that's what my Neo 2 is for. I started using it years ago when seamless compatibility with people at work using MS Word was important, but I've always liked it's feature set and it runs on both Windows and Linux (and Mac, but I don't have that). I've mostly used Softmaker Office for years. As in fling your eager Mac through footnoted halls of typography and do a hundred things Word has not dreamed of. You have to grok Mellel to like it, but once you swig that koolaid it's very powerful. My current favorite word processor is Mellel, a Mac-only application. It's a very strong tool.īut I may not be entirely level-headed. These days, LibreOffice is clearly a better choice. I used OpenOffice before the days of LibreOffice. But it is very useful and it can be set to be distraction free easily. Of course, this is no substitute for an Alphasmart Neo. It can also export to Word, which is handy if you need to submit to a publisher or an agent. The advantages of LibreOffice Writer is that it is very customizable, and you can actually use it to set up styles unobtrusively. You basically have a blank page and text. You can switch full screen, hide all scroll bars and the tool bar and status bars and ruler, etc. I am pleased to say that making LibreOffice into a distraction free writing setup is really easy. After all, LibreOffice Writer is a full-fledged word processor.īut I just set a new Raspberry Pi 4 system (great little computers) and Manjaro (the Linux distribution I installed) had installed LibreOffice 7, so I gave it a try. I know that it might sound like sacrilege to mention LibreOffice Writer in a forum mainly focused on distraction free tools. ![]()
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