![]() ![]() A bit of looking around, and a frontrunner for my little experiment emerged: iText Express. Martin’s insistence on using an old word processing program made me wonder if I was missing out an equally appealing older word processor. So I totally get where Martin is coming from: when you are a professional writer, you get really attached to the program you use for so many hours each day. Once I found something I liked, I kept on using it…even after new updates stopping coming and development was brought to a halt. I tried NeoOffice, OpenOffice, AbiWord, and many more, before finally settling on Bean. When I switched to a Mac back in 2008, I tried out a half dozen word processors before I found something I liked. ![]() Martin refuses to change his word processor of choice, which apparently causes some formatting problems for his publishers when he sends them manuscripts. Apparently, it was released for CP/M computers in 1978 before being converted into a DOS-compatible program years later. Martin still writes all of his novels in WordStar. Here’s an interesting fact I learned the other day: “Game of Thrones” author George R.
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