It just feels like with all our advances in technology we should have a processor that doesn't choke on 126,000 words of formatted text.
Seriously though, any recommendations for a word processor that can handle large files? LibreOffice (Desktop) and GDocs on both Firefox and Chrome cannot handle 126k words.
UPDATE: Hacked together something that works for me. I make all substantive edits in markdown in VSCode, which handles 126k words flawlessly. Then convert via pandoc to odt and open in LibreOffice to do the last bits of formatting. LibreOffice handles formatting fine, it was just choking on things like find and replace.
@shauna What OS? Notepad++ on Windows worked great. On Linux I have gotten decent mileage from `nano` (along with making the keybindings closer to what graphical editors use).
I am not aware of web based ones that don't start stuttering as the file size gets huge.
@mauve Linux. I specifically need a document that will let me output a very specific format: paragraph indents, double-spacing, chapter titles, etc.
@shauna life finds a way! 😁 Nice to see VSCode is handling large files well. I remember that was a major reason I switched from it back in the day. Ty for sharing your flow.
@mauve I hacked together something that works ok:
- make all substantive edits in markdown in VSCode, which handles 126k words flawlessly
- then convert via pandoc to odt
- open in LibreOffice to do the last bits of formatting. (LibreOffice handles formatting fine, it was just choking on things like find and replace.)
As long as I'm not doing too many last minute "oh shoot I forgot" edits this should be...bearable.