Spen’s using my old netbook running the latest Ubuntu and he decided that he liked the Geany IDE the best. We’re following this guy on YouTube and will then branch off and add to his framework. I’ve been helping my youngest son, Spencer, learn to program in Python by designing an RPG game. Updated: May 14, 2013Ĭategories: Fiction, Linux, Linux, Operating Systems, Programming, Promotion, Ubuntu, Windows Library Talk on Ebook Publishing As you can see in the above screenshot, it looks fabulous in Unity. You could see that feature in a future release! Plume is Open Source and uses the QT libraries, the same as KDE. Normal backups guarantee that peace of mind.Ĭyril is very open to suggestions in making the program better, so if while using it you think of a way to improve it, let him know. This is still beta software, but I’ve never had it completely botch my novel. In fact, I’ve been using Plume Creator to write my latest novel and absolutely loving it. I’m one of a handful of people helping the developer, Cyril Jacquet, test the program. If you are a writer who likes the idea of a Scrivener type program, but needs it to work on Linux like I do, this program is well worth the effort to get and start using. Lots of attention has been placed on the look and feel of this release. Version 0.61 Beta of Plume Creator has hit the download servers at Sourceforge. Categories: Computing, Fiction, Linux, Operating Systems, OSX, Programming, Ubuntu, Windows, Writing Tags: Jutoh, Libre Office, Plume Creator, Scrivener, sublime text Plume Creator Dark Theme Preview There are many other programming editor tools available on Mac and Windows that are free or low cost. You can probably substitute Scrivener for Plume and Word for Write on both Mac and Windows OS. As you can see below, Jutoh leaves a nice clean base to work with. epub directory to get at the raw XML files. Sublime Text is NOT Open Source and is available for Linux, Mac and Windows. It lets me manually tweak the XML in the epub. Sublime Text is an editor used by programmers. Jutoh is NOT Open Source but is available for Linux, Mac and Windows. When done, I unzip the epub and look it over in the fourth program – Sublime Text 2. I use Jutoh to set my style sheet and import special fonts. odt document and divide it up into separate chapter files and add front and back matter pages. After all my edits are made, I clean up the document removing tabs and extra spaces. Write is Open Source and can be used on Linux, Mac and Windows. When we get the manuscript perfect, I’m ready to build my epub. Then I send it to my editor and he marks it up using Write’s commenting features. odt and import the book into Libre Office’s Write. There is a Mac version, but it’s a few releases behind. Plume is Open Source and can be downloaded for Linux and Windows. Since I write on Ubuntu, I can’t use Scrivener and for the last three novels I’ve used Plume with great success. Plume is a first draft writing program similar to Scrivener. You may have to tailor some programs to your specific OS (Operating System). I’m admittedly an extreme corner case here, but I think no matter which OS you use, these tools are available. What follows is how I draft, edit and build my Indie novel ebooks. I’ve been changing my writing workflow this week.
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