Re: How to find alternative tools

["Edwin Skau" <eddy -dot- skau -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Hi ... Fox?

Have you looked at AuthorIT?

Edwin

On 3/21/06, Suzanne -dot- Cole -at- pattersondental -dot- com <
Suzanne -dot- Cole -at- pattersondental -dot- com> wrote:
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> Can anyone recommend a search string (or suggest a website or other
> resource) to help me find and compare alternatives to Word and OOo master
> documents?
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> For the life of me, I can't come up with anything that gives me more than
> those two, peppered with an occasional InDesign or FrameMaker, none of
> which appear to be quite what I want. OpenOffice.org comes closest, but
> its
> master document can't handle graphics the way I need it to*, and I'm
> running out of time. I've tried STC archives, general Google and Vivisimo
> searches, and techwr-l archives, but too much comes back, and none of it
> tells me what I need to know.
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> I'm trying to find software that I can use to author and compile
> individual
> chapter documents into a book. It needs to be easy to move from a lone
> writer to a collaborative writing environment. It should be robust in both
> authoring and page layout. It doesn't need to convert to PDF, because I
> already have Acrobat. Please don't suggest that Word will do what I need.
> I'm very well experienced in it up through W2000, and am tired of dealing
> with file corruptions in templates and documents, and have no desire to
> add
> master documents to that pile. I would like to avoid Word altogether.
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> But how do I build a search string to specifically find alternatives?
> Nothing I do comes close enough. I'm not feeling very creative
> today---maybe that's part of the problem. I'm missing something. There
> must
> be a better way to go about it. So far, the results make me feel as though
> I'm examining each individual straw in a haystack to see whether a needle
> is stuck to it, each time discovering the straw is from the wrong
> haystack.
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> Any pointers or suggestions would be gratefully received. I'm on digest,
> so would appreciate it if you could either copy me or reply offlist.
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> Thanks!
> ---Fox
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> *In OOo Writer, drawn objects such as circles and lines may look fine in
> the individual chapter document, but in the master document will move
> behind the graphic they should be in front of, or they'll shift, or
> disappear. Grouping them sometimes helps. Sometimes. Also, some graphic
> objects that look fine in the chapter document snap to the location of
> their anchor when they shouldn't, after linking in to the master document.
> The anchors themselves are difficult to control. The Writer forum has only
> been able to suggest putting the drawn objects and graphic into Draw and
> creating a single graphic file. This doesn't meet our needs... there are
> reasons we draw circles and lines. But that's another discussion.
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