How can it have a limit on paragraph size? Does automatically indent after 64k characters? This seems too moronic to believe. Also, isn't OpenOffice years dead? or did someone revive it?
Actually, I just look into it and Apache took up OpenOffice right after it OpenOffice org died and is still maintaining it. LibreOffice is filled with questionable choice and largely ruined OpenOffice's great interface, what they did to Qcad should have killed the project. Will have to try out Apache OpenOffice.
12 months ago
Anonymous
Well, my OO version is from 2017. I guess at least I didn't miss the past 13 years somehow.
12 months ago
Anonymous
>Well, my OO version is from 2017. >I guess at least I didn't miss the past 13 years somehow.
What's 2030 like, did the AI take over?
12 months ago
Anonymous
No, I meant it like I missed any new open software for text editing coming out.
12 months ago
Anonymous
You have poor comprehension and/or a rather forced sense of humor.
12 months ago
Anonymous
They have a new release as of February, might not have that limitation.
Anyways, use the character limit as a feature. Plenty of novels have been written as single paragraphs, how many novels have been built around every paragraph having exactly 64k characters? Work from within your limits, exploit them, structure the novel around it. Or just export it into a different program when you are done writing.
12 months ago
Anonymous
I might have to look into it.
It's not the end of the world but it's definitely a bit of an annoyance.
12 months ago
Anonymous
Working within a fixed paragraph size seems an interesting restriction, especially coming from the intention of doing the work as a single paragraph. An interesting puzzle in structure. Assuming your single paragraph was structurally a single paragraph and not just an aesthetic choice. Thinking about it has made me realize that I take paragraphs for granted.
12 months ago
Anonymous
It would be but it's not really a restriction in practice since 64k characters amounts to 30 pages. I've written stuff with very short paragraphs though. It's fun but I try to write longer things nowadays.
I actually am formatting it. The formatting is made for being able to print it later so it looks as the other things I printed before. Also, I make use of text size and dumb stuff like that.
There is considerably more to formatting than paragraphs.
It would be but it's not really a restriction in practice since 64k characters amounts to 30 pages. I've written stuff with very short paragraphs though. It's fun but I try to write longer things nowadays.
When looking at paragraph as the structure it is, how it relates to the whole and its contents, it certainly puts a restriction on you. Longer paragraphs do not give you more freedom unless you don't care about the purpose of the paragraph, the idea it represents, its function to the whole.
Schmidt talked about this in his essays. He wants you to be able to look at a page and simply by the paragraphs there be able to tell how "fast" that narrative tempo of the page is.
I don't agree with this completely, there is more too tempo than paragraph size and dialog breaks a tempo set solely by paragraph size. Generally I would say you should control tempo through the smaller structures, the language itself. A paragraph made up of very short sentences will have a fast tempo regardless of the length of the paragraph and an author like Brautigan managed to write a novel which feels very slow through idea despite the very short paragraphs, sentences and simple language, picrel
You should be writing in vim.
This homie writing in Planck length sized font
I just wanted to write a whole book in one paragraph, bro. But today this dream died.
How can it have a limit on paragraph size? Does automatically indent after 64k characters? This seems too moronic to believe. Also, isn't OpenOffice years dead? or did someone revive it?
It simply refuses to add another character to that paragraph.
>Also, isn't OpenOffice years dead?
No idea. I kinda like it.
Are you aware that LibreOffice exists and development of OpenOffice, as that other anon said, has long stopped?
I am not aware.
Actually, I just look into it and Apache took up OpenOffice right after it OpenOffice org died and is still maintaining it. LibreOffice is filled with questionable choice and largely ruined OpenOffice's great interface, what they did to Qcad should have killed the project. Will have to try out Apache OpenOffice.
Well, my OO version is from 2017. I guess at least I didn't miss the past 13 years somehow.
>Well, my OO version is from 2017.
>I guess at least I didn't miss the past 13 years somehow.
What's 2030 like, did the AI take over?
No, I meant it like I missed any new open software for text editing coming out.
You have poor comprehension and/or a rather forced sense of humor.
They have a new release as of February, might not have that limitation.
Anyways, use the character limit as a feature. Plenty of novels have been written as single paragraphs, how many novels have been built around every paragraph having exactly 64k characters? Work from within your limits, exploit them, structure the novel around it. Or just export it into a different program when you are done writing.
I might have to look into it.
It's not the end of the world but it's definitely a bit of an annoyance.
Working within a fixed paragraph size seems an interesting restriction, especially coming from the intention of doing the work as a single paragraph. An interesting puzzle in structure. Assuming your single paragraph was structurally a single paragraph and not just an aesthetic choice. Thinking about it has made me realize that I take paragraphs for granted.
It would be but it's not really a restriction in practice since 64k characters amounts to 30 pages. I've written stuff with very short paragraphs though. It's fun but I try to write longer things nowadays.
What about notepad, does it have a character limit? I'm pretty sure it doesn't. Or try latex
Write it in a code text editor? you're not formatting it anyway
I actually am formatting it. The formatting is made for being able to print it later so it looks as the other things I printed before. Also, I make use of text size and dumb stuff like that.
There is considerably more to formatting than paragraphs.
When looking at paragraph as the structure it is, how it relates to the whole and its contents, it certainly puts a restriction on you. Longer paragraphs do not give you more freedom unless you don't care about the purpose of the paragraph, the idea it represents, its function to the whole.
Schmidt talked about this in his essays. He wants you to be able to look at a page and simply by the paragraphs there be able to tell how "fast" that narrative tempo of the page is.
I don't agree with this completely, there is more too tempo than paragraph size and dialog breaks a tempo set solely by paragraph size. Generally I would say you should control tempo through the smaller structures, the language itself. A paragraph made up of very short sentences will have a fast tempo regardless of the length of the paragraph and an author like Brautigan managed to write a novel which feels very slow through idea despite the very short paragraphs, sentences and simple language, picrel
switch to Notepad++
Just use vim wtf