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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 I don't know that KWord and AbiWord are better, but they're alternatives to try.

Back in the day AbiWord was considered less of a resource hog than OpenOffice, but I don't know how updated or bugfree it is.

Stephen Dioxide :TwinPines:

@clacke @shauna I'd like to jump onto this pandoc bandwagon, except I do my writing and editing in vim. This seems strange to many people, writing prose in vim, but it works fine for me.

@Steve they can be useful together? I edit markdown in vim, but use pandoc for converting to various things (html, pdf, etc)

@Steve @shauna Not strange at all, I'd do that too. And pandoc rocks, of course.

If the end goal is a word processing doc though and final formatting touches are needed, working in a word processor the whole time seems reasonable and should be something one could comfortably do.