Quit your text processor
Are you a writer? What about not using a text processor to write your text? Read on, I promise it will make sense :)
There’s a nice article about text-only writing at Linux.com. Three tools are mentioned to substitute the big memory-hungry Office processor:
- A text editor - Vi
- A formatting tool - txt2tags
- A spell checker - Aspell
Check it out! Minimalist tools for writers by Dmitri Popov.
For more detailed information, read the Writing Books with Txt2tags document.
September 9, 2006 at 5:07 am
Aspell is not needed. Vim 7.0 has spellchecking built-in.
See http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/01/2235242
November 9, 2006 at 10:09 am
[...] Dmitri Popov, the kind txt2tags user that wrote an interesting article on Linux.com, strikes again! This time he created an extension so you can use the beloved txt2tags markup into OpenOffice.org! [...]