What software would be good for writing a book?

[darkar]

What software would be good for writing a book?

 

[franznietzsche]

I should ask, what kind of book do you mean?

There is a far cry between a physics textbook and a pulp fiction novel, which would require entirely different resources.

For the latter all you would need would be a standard word processor like MS Word.

For the former its more complicated.

 

[Dr-NiKoN]

Latex is great for both.

Ooook.

 

[darkar]

Well, i m finding one for writing physics book

 

[dduardo]

This is what I use:

http://www.texmacs.org/index.php3

The only thing is that the windows version isn't as feature filled as the linux/unix versions.

The program is great because I can start a MATLAB session right inside of the document itself.

 

[Asphyxi8]

Depends on whether you want to write a novel to make your living off of or you just want to write a story for fun or something. Usually, unless you are really serious about publishing your book, the default text application (word on windows and whatevertheyuse on mac) should work fine.

 

[darkar]

On the way of testing the software, i found another few softwares. One of them is Scientific's Software, u can check it out here http://licensing.mackichan.com/

Anyone using this software, or do u hav any idea abt it?