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Very simple markup language for writing fiction
I'm using a plain text editor (Vim) to write a fiction piece (chapter book), and I'm wondering what markup languages others use for such a task? I'm looking for something exceedingly simple, it does ...
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How can I prevent, or work around, unfortunate hyphenation in critical words?
In technical documentation, sometimes the tool's automatic hyphenation makes a bad break in the middle of a term, like the name of an environment variable or function. In these cases I would rather ...
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Can I add Drop Caps to my manuscript in the Storyist program?
I have a manuscript that I'd like to add Drop Caps to at the beginning of each chapter. I currently have it loaded into my Storyist program on my Mac-book Pro.
Does anyone know how I'd go about ...
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Format + Editor for book writing
A friend of mine is going to write a book. Therefore he is looking for an easy WYSIWYG solution. First I recommended latex, but this would be a bit to hard to learn. A big part of the book is finished ...
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How should we go from Stack Exchange Q/A to publishable PDF with the least hassle?
Over on another site we're talking about taking some of our content (on a particular theme) and re-packaging it as a printable PDF. (The primary use case is paper.) This wouldn't be a straight dump ...
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Free or cheap way to lay out a concert program booklet?
I just volunteered to produce the concert program booklets for a recital series starting in October and I'm wondering what is the best way to go about creating a multi-page booklet that would include ...
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How to capitalize the first line of a paragraph using styles in OpenOffice?
I am formatting a document as a novel using OpenOffice Writer.
I have a paragraph style for the main body, and another style derived from it that is the first paragraph in a chapter. I've set up this &...
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How to add multiple carriage returns between documents in Scrivener?
When compiling, i'm given 4 options for text separators, in the "separators" tab. What I want to do, is have 2 carriage returns, a line with 4 asterisks, then 2 carriage returns, between each text ...
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Preventing units from being "broken" to the next line
I'm having trouble with keeping "units" on the same line, or together. For example, g C m-2 (grams of carbon per square meter) often gets broken between the "-" and "2". I realize it's possible to use ...
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How do I search for tick marks not smart quotes in Word?
I'm doing a proofing check of a book prior to submitting to publication and want to make sure it's as neat as possible before doing so.
Recently, I've had to merge two versions of the document - from ...
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How to get 2 different page numberings in the same document in MS Word?
Let's say I have a 6 page document. (MS Word)
I want the first 3 pages to be numbered i, ii, iii
and the remaining 3 pages to be numbered 1, 2, 3
How can I achieve this?
I tried the automatic ...
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