I do not have sufficient experience with different web page authoring tools to advise on good software choice beyond the link above. Last time I used one was in a century long gone. In the late '90s, HoTMetaL used to build streamlined sites and had good tools for debugging and visualizing, where Front Page seemed to clutter up everything. This knowledge is now obsolete.
I use Bluefish all the time, although on a Linux box. It has many features that make it much easier to use than a plain text editor, and does not add a lot of bloat like some of the wysiwyg editors. I believe it also conforms to all the W3C standards (although of course you can intentionally violate them, if you wish).
LibreOffice Editor is a Chrome extension that allows to create, edit and view any Microsoft Word document, Excel spreadsheet and Powerpoint slide. It is an integration with LibreOffice Online and a file manager in order to handle all your documents when online. It is a document, spreadsheet and presentation editor integrated with our file manager to manage only "Office" file types with this online app.Its main features are:1) It provides direct access to create a doc, xls or ppt document from scratch with this LibreOffice Editor.2) It detects when you access to an "Office" document, and it opens it directly using this LibreOffice Editor.Its architecture are split in three modules.A) LibreOffice Editor Online, which contains the following features:- Create, edit and view XLS spreadsheets written using OpenOffice Calc, LibreOffice Calc or Microsoft Excel.- Create, edit and view DOC documents written using OpenOffice Doc, LibreOffice Doc or Microsoft Word.- Create, edit and view PPT slides written using OpenOffice Impress, LibreOffice Impress or Microsoft Powerpoint.- Styles management.- Font sizes.- Font colours.- Background colours.- Search for texts.- Insert columns / rows / tables / images..- Delete rows / columns.- Advanced find & replace / regular expressions / special characters.- Spreadsheet functions.- Slides preview.- Export to PDF.- Auto save files.- Open source code.B) LibreOffice Desktop API, which supports the formats detailed here _User_Guides/Getting_Started/File_formats. 3) File manager module, which includes the following functionality over the files used by this extension:- Personal files and directories in the Cloud.- Operations with files and folders: copy, move, upload, create folder/file, etc- Search for filesThis LibreOffice Editor extension use the platform It is available for free online users but it also allows the integration with premium users and on-premises OffiDocs deployments where the OffiDocs LibreOffice online global bundle is installed.IMPORTANT: This extension scans the URLs browsed in order to detect DOC, XLS, PPT files. The DOC, XLS, PPT files detected appear in a list located in the extension popup that are retrieved from our servers. The scanning is performed from our servers so your URL are reported to our system. No personal data is collected. This scan can be disabled with a checkbox that appears in the extension popup. If you disable this scanning, this functionality is not available so then the extension functionality is very limited.
Hello. I was wondering if any thought had been given to including a text editor like Atom either as one of the default programs or as an option to LibreOffice Suite? That would give developers and programmers a venue to produce and edit their code without having to install yet another program.
Updated: I was actually thinking more along the lines of being able to save code rather than a focus on highlighting. And, yes, I am familiar with other text editors like VIM, Atom, et al was just curious if it could be included here to preclude the need to download, install, and run yet another program.
@mikekaganski: I fully back your point of view. Primary goal of LO is rich text layout. Code inserted in a document will be commented or is used as an illustration for an argument. In principle, it is a short excerpt and manually mimicking text editor syntax highlighting is not that hard with the help of carefully chosen character styles.
Good morning.
I got into trouble in Libre Office writer when I want to use CTRL SHIFT P shortcut. I missclicked and some kind of editor mode launched. Now everything I write is in orange color and I can not use Libre Office Writer normally. I tried to guess what combination of keys I clicked, but with no results.
Could anyone help me?
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looks like you activated Track Changes feature (Edit -> Track Changes -> Record) by inadvertently clicking CTRL+SHIFT+C. Type once more and it will get deactivated. To accept changes made so far use Edit -> Track Changes -> Accept All
That is almost a perfect description of what you can do with Markdown, It does bold, italics, headings, code blocks, tables, lists, and can import images.
There are several Markdown editors available that show a dual panel display of what you type in and the final product.
One of the best is called Remarkable.
The itsFOSS editor for replies and posts uses Markdown. It also allows HTML.
I am a complete LaTeX/TeX novice. I know nothing about it and have never used it. I have been reading about it today as it was been recommended to me but I can't work out if it is suitable for my use case.
I am still in the planning stages of writing a dissertation for a Master's Degree which will be between 10k and 15k words long. This will include various chapters (thusly a table of contents), many citations, and hopefully quite a few images/figures/tables for illustration, (likely an Appendix also).
I am writing my proposal at present in LibreOffice, I have to submit it in a Microsoft Word format and LibreOffice can read/write using the MS Word file format. The same is true of the final dissertation document.
LaTeX sounds amazing and I would like to use it for my dissertation (most notably, I am under the impression that it will manage my citation for me, so I don't have to keep renumbering them when inserting new ones).
The subject is computer networking. There will be some use of formulae and superscript but it will be minimal. I don't want to produce an overly-colourful multi-font document. I want it to be easy to read, one font, one consistent size, standard alignment throughout; Like an RFC document but with some bold text here and there for titles and the ability to insert images.
LaTeX is not a word processor. You cannot 'export' to Word. LaTex is for professional quality document processing. MS Word is for cramming some text together as quickly and conveniently as possible for the writer. LaTeX is for deliberate, scientific, artistic and careful design for optimal readability. I'm not saying that word processors are bad! They are two different tools for two different jobs. Check out The Beauty of LaTeX, to see illustrations some differences.
LaTeX (or rather BiBTeX) will generate your bibliography based on a database of information. I recommend you check out Mendeley for managing your references. It works brilliantly with LaTeX and LibreOffice.
The notion of an academic institution demanding a dissertation in MS Word format is unethical---even scandalous. If my University had any such requirement for a non-open standard, I would raise a hell the likes of which they had never seen. Needless to say, I would refuse to submit in a non-open standard format.
As others, I also believe that have no sense for a novice to learn LaTeX if the final target is Word. However, if you are an experienced LaTeX user, probably you will not desire to work too much with bloat-ware word processors and probably you have already something made in LaTeX. Only then exporting could be a good idea.
For a novice a easy option could be write the documents in LyX or import LaTeX files to LyX because you can export to the above formats trough a simple menu, that internally call to the appropriate exporting tools. (Moreover, it a good option for a novice because you can write basic LaTeX documents without previous knowledge of LaTeX code).
However, the conversion is far from perfection. This could be painless for large but simple texts as hopefully is maintained the basic style typography (italics, etc.) and document structure (table of contents, sections, cite references, etc.) and lost format (margins and headers in HTML export, for example) are easy to fix later in Libreoffice.
For more complex documents (for example with a lot of equations, tables or figures) this final adjust could be more laborious. If it is also a very customized document (large preamble with uncommon packages and custom macros, or a lot of formatting code within the body text) then you can expect more serious problem (special formats are lost, or exported as garbage code, or you can export anything because the exporting tools do not know how manage the complex document). You mileage may vary, but the more complex the LaTeX source, the less chances of success.
First, you must understand that LaTeX is not kind of word processor with menu to insert images that can be placed or scaled with the mouse. LaTeX is simply you writing plain text with any text editor (even the simple Notepad from Windows is enough) that later can be converted into a formatted PDF (or DVI) with a compiler as pdflatex (there are more options). Lyx and many text editors can help writing the most common LaTeX codes for you, including the basic code to include an image, but these programs cannot cover all the possibilities of LaTeX with graphics. Understood this, what I can do with images writing only plain text?
The possibilities of format that offers a markup language like LaTeX are incredible but a elegant default format for simple text is obtained simply with the first line of code defining the document class:
This basic format can be extended or modified in the preamble, (from this line until \begindocument) to include images for example, but then you can mostly focus on the content. Although the content is not just clean text, since it must usually have many commands about the text structure, as \sectionSome text (instruct to the compiler that "Some Text" must be formatted as the title of a numbered section). This is hard to manage at first, but when you learn the most common commands, the hard thing is to leave your favourite lightweight text editor to return to LibreOffice or Word.
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