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>Open Office has a 64k character limit per paragraph

>> No.22235231

>>22235229
You should be writing in vim.

>> No.22235246

>>22235229
This nigga writing in Planck length sized font

>> No.22235250

>>22235246
I just wanted to write a whole book in one paragraph, bro. But today this dream died.

>> No.22235260

How can it have a limit on paragraph size? Does automatically indent after 64k characters? This seems too retarded to believe. Also, isn't OpenOffice years dead? or did someone revive it?

>> No.22235278

>>22235260
It simply refuses to add another character to that paragraph.
>Also, isn't OpenOffice years dead?
No idea. I kinda like it.

>> No.22235290

>>22235278
Are you aware that LibreOffice exists and development of OpenOffice, as that other anon said, has long stopped?

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>>22235290
I am not aware.

>> No.22235303

>>22235290
>>22235293
Actually, I just look into it and Apache took up OpenOffice right after it OpenOffice org died and is still maintaining it. LibreOffice is filled with questionable choice and largely ruined OpenOffice's great interface, what they did to Qcad should have killed the project. Will have to try out Apache OpenOffice.

>> No.22235314

>>22235303
Well, my OO version is from 2017. I guess at least I didn't miss the past 13 years somehow.

>> No.22235335

>>22235314
>Well, my OO version is from 2017.
>I guess at least I didn't miss the past 13 years somehow.
What's 2030 like, did the AI take over?

>> No.22235341

>>22235314
They have a new release as of February, might not have that limitation.

Anyways, use the character limit as a feature. Plenty of novels have been written as single paragraphs, how many novels have been built around every paragraph having exactly 64k characters? Work from within your limits, exploit them, structure the novel around it. Or just export it into a different program when you are done writing.

>> No.22235345

>>22235335
No, I meant it like I missed any new open software for text editing coming out.

>> No.22235346

>>22235335
You have poor comprehension and/or a rather forced sense of humor.

>> No.22235352

>>22235341
I might have to look into it.
It's not the end of the world but it's definitely a bit of an annoyance.

>> No.22235354

What about notepad, does it have a character limit? I'm pretty sure it doesn't. Or try latex

>> No.22235420

>>22235352
Working within a fixed paragraph size seems an interesting restriction, especially coming from the intention of doing the work as a single paragraph. An interesting puzzle in structure. Assuming your single paragraph was structurally a single paragraph and not just an aesthetic choice. Thinking about it has made me realize that I take paragraphs for granted.

>> No.22235513

>>22235420
It would be but it's not really a restriction in practice since 64k characters amounts to 30 pages. I've written stuff with very short paragraphs though. It's fun but I try to write longer things nowadays.

>> No.22235548

Write it in a code text editor? you're not formatting it anyway

>> No.22235558

>>22235548
I actually am formatting it. The formatting is made for being able to print it later so it looks as the other things I printed before. Also, I make use of text size and dumb stuff like that.

>> No.22235646

>>22235548
There is considerably more to formatting than paragraphs.
>>22235513
When looking at paragraph as the structure it is, how it relates to the whole and its contents, it certainly puts a restriction on you. Longer paragraphs do not give you more freedom unless you don't care about the purpose of the paragraph, the idea it represents, its function to the whole.

>> No.22235734

>>22235646
Schmidt talked about this in his essays. He wants you to be able to look at a page and simply by the paragraphs there be able to tell how "fast" that narrative tempo of the page is.

>> No.22235741

>>22235229
switch to Notepad++

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>>22235734
I don't agree with this completely, there is more too tempo than paragraph size and dialog breaks a tempo set solely by paragraph size. Generally I would say you should control tempo through the smaller structures, the language itself. A paragraph made up of very short sentences will have a fast tempo regardless of the length of the paragraph and an author like Brautigan managed to write a novel which feels very slow through idea despite the very short paragraphs, sentences and simple language, picrel

>> No.22235988

Just use vim wtf