It's 2 days and counting until Software Freedom Day, 2024. We're almost there. Today's list of FreeSoftware covers tools for writers and authors: Stardict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarDict XDXF for dictionary interchange https://sourceforge.net/projects/xdxf/files/ Spell checker https://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/ Rhyming dictionary https://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=8 GNU style & diction https://www.gnu.org/software/diction/diction.html If you want to script additional functionality such as autocorrection when typing or you want to check out other peoples' useful scripts, have a look at Autohotkey https://www.autohotkey.com/ It is Windows based, but there was a port to Linux called AutohotkeyX using Wine and xdotool: https://github.com/tinku99/ahkx/tree/master You can also use xdotool on its own on Linux: https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool Here are some #FLOSS word processing programs for writers and authors: Lyx https://www.lyx.org/ Scribus https://www.scribus.net/ Wordgrinder https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/ AbiWord https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/AbiWord FocusWriter https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/ Calibre https://calibre-ebook.com/ StoryCad https://github.com/storybuilder-org/StoryCAD Enjoy Software Freedom Day this year. Hope you'll be trying out some new Free and Open Source software soon.