Texlive is great if you're certain your output will be now and forever only in PDF format. If you can even conceive of it being ePub or some other lineflow reading format, Texlive and all the TeX/LaTeX tools dead-end you.
SteveT Steve Litt November 2019 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 09:35:42 -0700 Justin Noor <[email protected]> wrote: > Mr. Hansteen what are your thoughts on Texlive? > > On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 9:16 AM Peter Nicolai Mathias Hansteen < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > 2. nov. 2019 kl. 16:00 skrev Oliver Leaver-Smith > > > <[email protected]>: > > > > > > What tools do people find useful for writing on OpenBSD? By > > > writing I > > mean long form such as novels and technical books, including plot > > and character development, outlining, and formatting for publishing > > (not all the same application necessarily) > > > > > > I have found a number which boast Linux support, but not really > > > anything > > that stands out which supports OpenBSD (aside from the obvious > > LaTeX et al.) > > > > I really can’t speak to plot and character development, but all > > three editions of The Book of PF were written using OpenOffice and > > later LibreOffice write on OpenBSD snapshots. > > > > Earlier versions of that manuscript were developed using DocBook > > SGML (editing with emacs), but the publisher (fortunately) did not > > want any truck with that. > > > > For any new projects I would likely look half-heartedly for > > something markdown based but would probably end up going the > > LibreOffice route again. > > > > — > > Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation > > team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ > > http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious > > network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected > > after 42673 seconds. > > > > > > > > > >
