Lessons learned: writing really long fiction

Post by jonathanstrange » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 12:10 PM UTC

ahaferburg wrote: post #44

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I'm writing with Papyrus Autor [1], which is pretty expensive proprietary software that, at least for the German language, has many advantages over other writing programs available. Especially the Duden spell-checking integration is much better than in any other software. IMHO, it's worth the money for that alone. If it weren't for this software, I'd definitely use Markdown and Emacs. [1] https://www.papyrus.de/

I'm curious. If you're using a special software for authors, why is it necessary to convert to LaTeX manually? Isn't this software capable of exporting to formats for publishing? I would imagine not a lot of authors bother with LaTeX.

It doesn't convert to LaTeX, it's intended for creative writing, not for academic writing, and LaTeX plays no role in this market. LaTeX is really just used in academic writing.

Post by sharedfrog » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 4:05 PM UTC

jonathanstrange wrote: post #70

sharedfrog wrote: post #38

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In my experience, converting to LaTex is hard, but writing in LaTex from the start is trivial. That's how I write my novels, and I don't need more than the occasional \emph{}, \ldots and \chapter{}, and remembering to use `` when opening dialogue. Could you do that from Papyrus Autor? The printed book you have self-published but without KDP or bulk self-publishers, can I ask how you went about it? Did you take your L…

No, I published it with KDP and Createspace as usual. I just wasn't very happy with it, including Createspace print quality.

I see. Thanks!

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