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[Charles Philip Chan <cpchan@xxxxxxxx>]

John Andersen <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Latex is more about typesetting than writing, 

You have the wrong impression of LaTeX. The whole point of LaTeX is that
the author should not have to worry about formatting/typesetting once the
class of the document is defined.

> and its aimed mostly at technical/scientific writing. It would be a
> huge distraction to go down that path.

No. LaTeX is meant for documents that does not require precise layout
(like an ad). It is definitely a good tool for a novel. A good class to
use is "memoir":

http://ctan.org/pkg/memoir

> Outlining is something I use as well, and sadly its pretty much
> missing/useless in OOo and Libre Office.

The only good outliner is org-mode (outlining is only part of what it
does) in Emacs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Org-mode

http://orgmode.org/manual/index.html

However, it has a very steep learning curve.

Charles

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