Linked by Alcibiades on Tue 20th Dec 2005 18:40 UTC
In order to see what is needed in book writing applications, you need
to look carefully at the desk of someone who is actively writing a
book. You will most likely see piles of paper, often cut up and marked
with pencil, and if you examine those of the papers that are in piles,
you will see that the pagination is all over the place because pages
have been reordered. Read on...
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Actually I'm a liberal arts writer and I use Latex. Admitedly I started with LyX on Linux, but changed to LaTeX, with TexShop as the editor,when I switched to OS X.
The most likely reason the writer did not include LaTeX, is that LaTeX is a mark-up language, not an editor. The usefulness of LaTeX to an author will be affected by the editor they use and it is therefore more appropriate to review available editors.
TexShop is good, but not available on Linux. There is a Qt based editor I tried on OS X, which is also good and I presume available for Linux (can't remember write now). It had good structure layout and included tabs, which is handy for editing multiple chapters at a time (each chapter a different document).