Celtx is a free open source media creation tool out of Canada; it is based on Firefox and does a nice job for screenwriting, storyboards, comics, games, podcasts, and collaborative work.
Its available for Linux in a number of languages, and a dotpup might just bring two creative families together- they claim "250,000 media creators in 160 countries create with Celtx in over 20 different languages. Celtx is used by independent filmmakers and studio professionals, and by students in over 1,400 universities and film schools - many that have adopted Celtx for teaching and class work submission."
Its a small download and doesn't hog system resources- very similar philosophy to Puppy itself...
http://www.celtx.com/overview.html
http://forums.celtx.com/index.php
A Celtx package might be good for Puppy
Copied from 41 language puppy thread
Aitch wrote:Friends
I have downloaded the windoze version of Celtx to have a look at, and it has some interesting features, offering projects in Film, AV, Theatre, Audio Play, Storyboard, Comic Book, & Text
The language issue seems to be in the form of 1 language per download, many (20?) choices available, but not, it seems, Indic!
On the text only mode, which I sampled, attached, it only offers a celtx format file to open as a project, but pasting can be done OK, and there is a search within page function, dictionary & spellcheck
Also there is no point size for font/script, only larger/smaller options, and I tried pasting in in different font sizes but I'm not sure it adhered to my selections
There is a useful video feature tour/helpfile system available, and especially useful is the shared project feature, after logging on to Celtx server, which can be public or private/permission access
The beauty of this is collaborative projects can be worked on and shared cross platform, Win/Mac/Linux!
Perhaps projects could be saved to filefront upload?
http://uploadhosted.filefront.com/
A warning - by default it tries to send a ping to the Celtx server at startup, (to determine how many Celtx users are logged on, they say!) this can be turned off, though [which I would advise]
Celtx wiki, here
http://wiki.celtx.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
Translation info, here
http://wiki.celtx.com/index.php?title=C ... ting_Celtx
It looks quite interesting, so hopefully, it can be made into a pup!
Note: the visible clock is my ebay timer, as I'm in the middle of bidding
Aitch
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Sorry for bringing up such an ancient thread, but this was the one that already exists, and has the same suggestion I have.
I'm new to linux and new to puppy and many things are still very unclear to me coming from the MS-Win point of view, but I'm learning.
My 2nd hand Laptop, I have for my writing, died. Win XP did not boot anymore, so I decided to go where no man has gone before and try Linux. I found Lucid Puppy, and It seems to be a perfect answer to my problems. Even the harddrive that sounded like abrasive wheel is quiet now. Boot from CD and save to usb stick. No more noise.
Many thanks to the developers.
Abiword is fine, I can manage with it. Used it before and it is OK. But lately Ive found Celtx to be most suitable for my style of writing and the projects I do. It has easy commenting tool and it gives me better awareness of the whole project. And it is quite lightweight too.
How about it?
Or is there a way to use it with Lupu as it is?
I'm new to linux and new to puppy and many things are still very unclear to me coming from the MS-Win point of view, but I'm learning.
My 2nd hand Laptop, I have for my writing, died. Win XP did not boot anymore, so I decided to go where no man has gone before and try Linux. I found Lucid Puppy, and It seems to be a perfect answer to my problems. Even the harddrive that sounded like abrasive wheel is quiet now. Boot from CD and save to usb stick. No more noise.
Many thanks to the developers.
Abiword is fine, I can manage with it. Used it before and it is OK. But lately Ive found Celtx to be most suitable for my style of writing and the projects I do. It has easy commenting tool and it gives me better awareness of the whole project. And it is quite lightweight too.
How about it?
Or is there a way to use it with Lupu as it is?
i just downloaded celtx from the site http://www.celtx.com/addons.html?dlfile ... .1.tar.bz2 clicked on it to extract.......then clicked on the 'celtx' script to start it.. seems to work fine in my lupu525
If it doesn't run.... right click and open a terminal where the 'celtx' script is type
and post what errors you get
If it doesn't run.... right click and open a terminal where the 'celtx' script is type
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./celtxBionicpup64 built with bionic beaver packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=114311
Xenialpup64, built with xenial xerus packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107331
Xenialpup64, built with xenial xerus packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107331
Thankyou for the friendly and quick replies.
Managed to install Celtx and it's up and running, and I even succeeded retrieving my previous saves from the 'grinding wheel'.
Life is good. My Toshiba Satellite with only 128Mb RAM goes stronger than ever. Also W-lan started suddenly work without struggles and headaches. I'm amazed. Puppy looks so much better than XP ever did.
I'm a fan.
PDF export works fine here. No registration needed. Tho 'novel' does not have pdf export at all. So I use PDFCreator.. or LibreOffice.
Managed to install Celtx and it's up and running, and I even succeeded retrieving my previous saves from the 'grinding wheel'.
Life is good. My Toshiba Satellite with only 128Mb RAM goes stronger than ever. Also W-lan started suddenly work without struggles and headaches. I'm amazed. Puppy looks so much better than XP ever did.
I'm a fan.
PDF export works fine here. No registration needed. Tho 'novel' does not have pdf export at all. So I use PDFCreator.. or LibreOffice.
I'm surprised you found this old post; that kind of attention to detail will serve you well! 
couple comments-
there are several versions of Celtx floating around; they were using a 'cloud' version of pdf converter (when script was uploaded). Which version are you using?
You might also find this site of interest: American Zoetrope (Coppola's prodco) has an old forum- one of the first, with some people who've actually made film (and of course the usual set of poseurs and blowhards
).
http://www.zoetrope.com/index.cgi
And of course you know about the ongoing Amazon prizes, right?
another site with excellent resources is the bbc writersroom
couple comments-
there are several versions of Celtx floating around; they were using a 'cloud' version of pdf converter (when script was uploaded). Which version are you using?
You might also find this site of interest: American Zoetrope (Coppola's prodco) has an old forum- one of the first, with some people who've actually made film (and of course the usual set of poseurs and blowhards
). http://www.zoetrope.com/index.cgi
And of course you know about the ongoing Amazon prizes, right?
another site with excellent resources is the bbc writersroom