[PW] Author's software for writing a book?

[swguardian-wombat at yahoo.com]

I would suggest Open Office Writer. Open Office 2.3 suite is free. 
   
  Writer: "Libera tus documentos usando Writer, el procesador de textos de OpenOffice.org. Crea y diseña documentos con todo lo que esperas de una suite moderna de ofimática. Deja que Writer maneje la complejidad de índices, encabezados, paginación, tablas y autoformas; y genera documentos seguros para su redistribución." 
   
  Download: http://www.openoffice.org/

Jules Siegel <jules at cafecancun.com> wrote:
  I am at last writing and assembling "The Real Mexico," a book in popular
language that challenges many popular and academic beliefs about Mexico, its
history, people and cultures.

The detail ranges from the historical origins of the terms Maya and Aztec
(invented by the Spanish) to the maximum capacity of the Mexico City Zócalo
(300,000 by the most generous measure for the plaza itself, maybe 900,000
including a substantial area of surrounding streets). Then there are all the
letters, e-mails, interviews, newspaper and magazine clippings, Internet
research, complete and partially written chapters, handwritten notes scattered
over thirty years of journals, thousands of digital images, scanned and
unscanned prints and slides, drawings and paintings.... Mine eyes glaze over. I
feel like running away.

Given the controversial nature of my arguments, and the highly politicized
nature of its audience, it must be documented in absolutely bullet-proof detail.
I have a very large body of references to support my views, as well as to
document the positions I deconstruct. The book will be fully indexed, foot-noted
and cross-referenced, with an annotated bibliography, tables of contents, maps
and illustrations, a multi-lingual glossary of place names, technical terms and
non-English words and phrases.

I have to finish this book /right now/ or my beloved bride, the beauteous Anita
Brown, will put me out on the street with my computer and all my books and
files. Maybe she will stake me to a shopping cart and some black plastic garbage
bags. My children -- all grown -- are backing her on this. They haven't yet set
a deadline but it is very clear that I better wrap this up with all dispatch.

I am going to produce the book in Adobe Creative Suite 3. What would be the
best /Windows/ software application(s) to help me organize, write and process
this project for export to CS3?

-- 
JULES SIEGEL Apdo. 1764, 77501-Cancun, Q. Roo, Mexico
http://www.cafecancun.com/bookarts

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