What do you write with?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-02-16 08:10pm

If you type on the computer, name the software.

If you use non-comp methods, name the method used.

As for me, I either use FrontPage or Word, depending on the format needed.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-02-16 08:12pm

MS Word...but I literally delete all game when I work.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-02-16 08:12pm

NoteTab. Only problem is it doesn't have a spellcheck on the freeware version.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-02-16 08:15pm

wordpad

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-02-16 08:15pm

Microsoft Notepad.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-02-16 08:16pm

Oh, I also sometimes use pencil and paper.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-02-16 08:17pm

Microsoft Word much of the time. Though I'll scrawl down stuff on whatever openes quickest or is available. Text and formatting options really don't concern me.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-02-16 08:20pm

Painted Skies was written entirely on paper before it was transfered to text, so my manuscript includes the beginning of the missing second part.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-02-16 08:36pm

OpenOffice Writer (usually), MS Word (at school), and UltraEdit/32 (editing plain text files, etc.)

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2003-02-16 08:49pm

Word.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-02-16 09:43pm

MS Word, with every single autoformatting/"convenience" feature turned off. I can reformat a fic in a couple of minutes with my method.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-02-16 09:45pm

Hmm, I wonder if it's possible to make an AutoFormat rule that converts bold to *bold* and italic to _italic_...

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-02-16 09:47pm

Crayz9000 wrote:Hmm, I wonder if it's possible to make an AutoFormat rule that converts bold to *bold* and italic to _italic_...

It would help immensely. Maybe a Macro or something, but it'd take something a little more intuitive than Word to do it.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-02-16 11:24pm

I write my stuff in OpenOffice, save it to HTML for publication on my webpage, and use my html2bbcode conversion script (see the post in the Announcements forum about posting HTML code to this forum) to turn it into BBcode with bold-face, italics, images, and hyperlinks intact.

Post by **Steve** » 2003-02-16 11:25pm

I use..... basic WordPad. And have for nearly six years.

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-02-16 11:28pm

I use Word. I've had my currect incarnation for some time, and it's set up very close to my ideal. The spellchecker has learned a lot of new words (words like Thrawn, turbolaser, phaser, etc) and I have most of the formatting done just the way I like it.

Rhoades · Post by **Rhoades** » 2003-02-16 11:31pm

I something use Works or Wordpad, since they are the only two things on my ancient system.

Datana · Post by **Datana** » 2003-02-16 11:59pm

For fiction, Notepad+ (not Notepad Plus); I copy and paste the final result into Word for a quick spellcheck, but the formatting is all done with monospace ASCII in mind.

For "serious" writing (reports, lab writeups), I use Word 2000 and convert to PDF when done with Adobe Acrobat (PDF being the format papers are demanded in if submitted electronically).

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2003-02-17 12:02am

Wrote my first novel in WordPerfect 6 for Windows. Haven't written much of any fiction since but I use StarOffice/OpenOffice for everything else I've written for human consumption over the past few years.

For machine consumption (C, C++, Python, HTML, CSS2, Java etc) I write with PFE and jEdit.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-02-17 01:55am

So I guess nobody's going to pipe up and say he uses vi?

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2003-02-17 02:01am

Darth Wong wrote:So I guess nobody's going to pipe up and say he uses vi?

EMACS!

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-02-17 02:58am

Darth Wong wrote:So I guess nobody's going to pipe up and say he uses vi?

I use joe on my Freesco box, if that counts

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-02-17 03:29am

What the hell's vi?

Is it something banable? Despicable? Unmentionable? Unthinkable? Shouldn't-existable?

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2003-02-17 03:33am

VI is a text editor used mostly on Unix/Linux.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-02-17 04:21am

And it happens to have the world's strangest keyboard layout, although there are a lot of *nix geeks that I know who love it.

The reason for the oddball layout is due to *nix's network-orientation; you can't transmit control keys very well across a terminal connection.