John Andersen <jsamyth@gmail.com> 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 -- "Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX." (By Stephan Zielinski)