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Preferred Creative Writing Applications (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 days ago by vulpes@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hello everyone,

I wanted to ask if anyone has a preferred software for the purpose of creative writing.

Libre Office Writer is great of course, but just as software like LogSeq or Obsidian exist for the note taking process, I was wondering if there is anything that is specifically geared toward the creative writing process.

I know that there are federated blog platforms which focus on this in their presentation, but was curious about applications specifically.

FOSS is definitely preferable.

Thanks!

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[–] Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Apostrophe for offline use, and, unfortunately not FOSS, overleaf (latex) for online use. I really need to find a FOSS replacement...

[–] aksdb@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Huh? What's wrong with Overleaf?

If you "only" need beautiful PDF and it doesn't have to be online, you can also use Typst with vscode and tinymist as editor locally. Not as powerful as TeX, but I know few people for use TeX even remotely to its fullest. The upside of Typst is, that the "core" syntax for content writing is very markdown-like, so you can focus on writing instead of the underlying language.

[–] Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Holy shit, thank you! I had no idea overleaf was open source; you have cleared my conscience. Typst seems interesting, but I am a bit of a typesetting nerd and quite used to latex anyway. Transition now would be difficult. I'll check it out though, it might be nice for drafts and such. Thanks again!

I'm definitely going to share Typst with non-tex-addicts though, it does seem really cool.

[–] aksdb@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I am also a former TeX addict, but I was always more in favor or ConTeXt over LaTeX. And Typst is basically ConTeXt, but a lot faster (as in you get real time preview as you type).