My dad's a retired newspaper editor. He wants a word processing

>>55793608
There actually is software dedicated for manuscripts.
If you mean in the film sense.

>>55793608
I don't know what the fuck a manuscript is, but Microsoft has had a chokehold on most document processing in every field except academic publishing (science/math particularly), so I would be surprised if Word wasn't The De Facto Standard for whatever he's doing.

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your dad should be dissappointed in you being a weeaboo neckbeard

>>55793612
I don't think that's what he's talking about. He was a copy editor for 30 years, and a reporter before that. He's never had anything to do with film.

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>>55793628
this

it's large and unwieldy, but it works

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>>55793608
https://www.latex-project.org/

saika a cute

googling found me having manuscripts apply to scientific journal articles, which I doubt he would be doing. All the same, there's a template for that.
http://www.mdpi.com/authors/latex

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Man, this is really bothering me now. I'll ask him to clarify next time we talk/install Word and Latex and have him try them both out.

Thanks guys.

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>>55793628
Latex is for autistic fucks, don't do it. Just install him Libreoffice or something

>>55793751
If he really just wants to write a book, which I'm completely sure is the case,
All he would really need is this:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{Times New Roman} %should work, but is unnecessary if it doesn't

\title{text here}
\author{same}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
%words here

\newpage
\section{Chapter 1}
%words here

\end{document
[\code]

>>55793801
you could probably do a bit better with documentclass

im fairly sure there's a book class

>>55793761
It is objectively superior past the first five minutes of confusion.
I will shitpost latex in every word processor thread until it becomes its own meme.

>>55793812
Oh, huh.
Yeah, it's pretty nice. Revised, and without loose strings:

\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{Times New Roman} %should work, but is unnecessary if it doesn't'

\title{text here}
\author{same}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\chapter{1: The Whattening}
%words here

\newpage
\chapter{2: The Crappening}
\end{document}

>>55793878
Also, it looks like the \newpage is redundant. Still nice to know of, though.