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一位作家告别 Microsoft Word
A writer leaves Microsoft Word
导读
这篇博文是一位作家告别 Microsoft Word 的自述，评论区里写作者们分享了各自的替代方案（Markdown、Scrivener）以及为何仍有人离不开 Word。值得写作者读，因为它讨论的是工具如何塑造写作过程——是专注于内容还是纠结于文档格式，以及长篇作品的结构化写作。
可以直接用的写作要点
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用纯文本或 Markdown 写作，能把注意力放在内容而非排版上，写得更快、思路更自由。
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写长篇时用能可视化结构的工具（如 Scrivener）管理多条线索，可避免情节失控。
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先想清楚自己真正需要哪些功能，别被功能过剩的软件绑架。
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工具选择要匹配协作环境：需要与他人交换复杂格式文档时，Word 仍是现实标准。
HN 评论精选
Markdown 写作更自由、更专注内容；Word 对多数人功能过剩。
我写《Foundations of Programming》时用的是 Word，后来写《The Little MongoDB Book》改用 Markdown + Textile（在 Textmate 里）。用 Markdown 写作自由得多，速度更快，也让我更专注于内容而不是文档本身。我一直很喜欢 Word，它是个好产品，但对 99% 的人来说它做得太多、也太贵。Office 更糟……Gmail 比 Outlook 好，任何东西都比 PowerPoint 或 Access 强。我最近两份工作让我明白，要打破 Office 的垄断，真正需要干掉的是 Excel。
latch查看英文原文
I know this is in a different league..but I wrote Foundations of Programming in Word, and then The Little MongoDB Book in Markdown + Textile (in Textmate). Writing in Markdown was a much more liberating experience as it was much quicker and let me focus more on the content rather than the document. I've always really liked Word, it's a great product, but for 99% of people it just does way too much and is thus way too expensive. Office is worse...gmail is better than outlook, anything is better than powerpoint or access. My last two jobs have shown me that Excel is really what you need to kill if you want to break the Office stronghold.
Scrivener 的价值在于让长篇结构透明，如同 IDE 之于代码。
简言之——又一位写书的作者发现了 Scrivener 的美妙。我用它 100% 写完了一本书，还用它重构了另外三本（当时它们的多条情节线眼看要失控）。它在文字处理层面并没有什么神奇之处，但它让一部长篇作品的结构变得一目了然。（如果你不靠写书为生，我能给的最好比喻是：想象你多年来只用文本编辑器写代码（如果你的编辑器是 Emacs，恭喜——那就是文本编辑器里的 MS Word，功能齐全，但除非大量定制，否则位置都不太对）。然后有人给你看了 IDE。Scrivener 就是那个东西：它基本上是一本书的 IDE。）
cstross查看英文原文
TL;DR -- another book-writer discovers the thing of beauty that is Scrivener. I've written one book 100% in it, and used it to refactor three others (when their multiple plot threads were threatening to get out of hand). It's not that it does anything magical at the word processing level, but it makes the structure of a book-length work transparent. (If you don't write books for a living, the best metaphor I can give you is this: imagine you've been writing code for years using just a text editor. (If your editor is Emacs, congratulations: that's the MS Word of text editors -- kitchen sink included, but not everything ideally placed unless you do a lot of customization.) Then someone shows you an IDE. That's Scrivener: it's basically an IDE for books.)
在需要协作交换复杂格式文档的场景里，Word 仍是现实标准。
唉，我真希望能永远离开 Word。但我家族的企业要为非营利组织和公共机构写资助申请，这意味着我们经常要跟别人交换文档。在那个世界里，Word 仍然称王，尤其是格式复杂的文档。
jseliger查看英文原文
Ah: I wish I could leave Word for good. But my family's business does grant writing for nonprofit and public agencies (see http://blog.seliger.com if you're curious), which means we routinely have to exchange documents with other people. In that world, Word still rules, especially for complexly formatted documents.
Word 功能强大但复杂，多数人用不到高级功能，工具选择应匹配实际需求。
Word 仍然是很好的文字处理器。它其实有全屏模式，能像作者用的那些程序一样消除干扰。Word 最大的问题是功能越多越复杂，而且真的没有好的用户手册或资源来培训人。我发现大多数转用 GoogleDocs 的人根本没用 Word 的高级功能，他们用 WordPad 大概也一样开心。
jrico查看英文原文
Word is still a great Word processor. It actually has a full screen mode that eliminates all the distractions just as the programs used by the author. Word's biggest problem is that all its power increases its complexity and there really isn't a good user manual or resource to train people. I find that most people that switch to something like GoogleDocs don't use the advanced features of Word and probably would have been just as happy using WordPad.
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