Re: Re: Adding VS Code to Pi
  By: Ahem A Rivet's Shot to The Natural Philosopher on Tue Feb 16 2021 11:09
am

 > On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 10:54:57 +0000
 > The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
 > 
 > > Doesn't do drop caps, automatic index, illustrations, and emphasised text.
 > 
 >  Sure it does, you just have to use the right markup.
 > 
 > > >> Even vim is enought to write any book in LaTeX.
 > 
 > > I wouldn't write a book in Latex, either
 > 
 >  There's plenty of books written in LaTeX it's not a bad option,
 > better than troff in many ways - but both were designed for the job of
producing bo
 > and they're pretty good at it. These day's I'd be more
 > inclined to use docbook and forget all about the layout until print time.
 > 
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For the record, I am using Wordgrinder for books and short stories. You get to
write
the piece using generic styles (header 1, paragraph, blockquote, etc) and then
you can
export it to easily parseable formats. 

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