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Posted by Marbux
Nov 30, 2017 at 02:08 AM
Three books (but also gobs of lengthy legal briefs over the years, all in outline form using the WordPerfect outliner features):
Two treatises co-authored with my ex-wife, Carol Van Strum. (These are studies of corruption within the Environmental Protection Agency, largely based on internal agency documents):
* No Margin of Safety: Dioxin Pollution and the Need for Emergency Action in the Pulp and Paper Industry (1987, published by Greenpeace International, available online at http://dioxindorms.com/NoMarginOfSafety.pdf
* The Politics of Penta, (1990?, published by Greenpeace U.S.A.)
I’m also the primary author of the NoteCase Pro help file, currently some 1,800 pages. Available online at http://notecasepro.com/help.php
The Help file is entirely produced using the NoteCase Pro outliner; the Help file is a NoteCase Pro document (the online version is exported to framed HTML).
Posted by Marbux
Nov 30, 2017 at 03:19 AM
jaslar wrote:
>I wrote it on KnowIt, then maybe the second two pane outliner available
>for Linux (after Tuxcards). Notecase is its successor.
It’s a shame that KnowIt became abandonware so early, and with major bugs unfixed. The combination of its HTML export and the ability to directly edit page source was invaluable. Plus, it was the only outliner for Linux that I could find at the time that could export minimalist HTML with a hyperlinked table of contents. Its file format was pretty strange though, HTML superimposed on RTF, with the text attributes stored in the RTF and all other markup stored as HTML.
Later, I discovered NoteCase and then NoteCase Pro, which punched my ticket because it has those features (other than the mixed file format) and was highly extensible with Lua scripts. There’s now a script that lets us directly edit the HTML.
Posted by Hugh
Nov 30, 2017 at 01:41 PM
I’m writing a book based on 50 or so years of journalism of different kinds in various locations on the globe - a work of fiction that nonetheless uses characters, ideas and experiences to which I’ve been exposed.
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Nov 30, 2017 at 02:39 PM
Franz, if your perfectionism book is published in English I would be glad to buy a copy. Perfectionism is a curse!
Whether translated or not I hope it’s a best seller!
Daly
Franz Grieser wrote:
I’ve written 24 books on computer software (MS DOS, Windows,
>Ventura Publisher, Pagemaker, Wordperfect, Star Writer, Outlook etc.), a
>computer encylopedia and a book on time management. They’re all
>out of print.
>
>The book I am writing right now is a how-to book on how to deal with
>perfectionism. It will be published as an e-book in Germany by the end
>of this year.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Nov 30, 2017 at 04:47 PM
Thanks Daly.
I’ll tell my publisher that there is demand for an English version :-)