Any suggestions for writing environments for writing a non-fiction book?

Posted by Franz Grieser
Mar 19, 2007 at 11:06 AM

Stephen

>An opinion no one will agree with - I think for a large scale non-fiction writing project,
>the best writing environment is MS Word, particularly its latest incarnation. Of
>course you would apply a lot of other tools, but Word wil have the best general
>connectivity and the greatest variety of options for general writing.

I use OpenOffice.org Writer for writing and Ideamason for managing the project. I copy and paste text between Writer and Ideamason or import .doc files (from Writer or Word) into Ideamason. Though the editor in Ideamason 3.x has improved a lot compared to v2.2, I prefer “my” writing environment in Writer (e.g. word completion, boiler plate, macros, the better spell checker).

Off course, you could use Microsoft Word instead of Writer. Word is one of the export formats in Ideamason.

Franz